Elizabeth is the Business Operations Coordinator at MCFB. She supports her colleagues by managing the day to day ‘business’ running of the organisation as well as taking a strategic look at how to move the organisation forward into new spaces. She wears many hats; she helps to manage finances, conducts HR procedures such as staff and student induction, manages annual leave entitlement, promotes health and safety procedures, maintains the premises and supplies within, liaises with external suppliers, and supports the staff and students in various other ways. She also works as the social media and website admin and uses her graphic design skills to promote and market the organisation.

Elizabeth moved to Edinburgh from the States in 2018 to do her Masters in comparative public policy, with a focus on migration. Her Masters dissertation was on Burkinabe migrants in Côte d’Ivoire and the challenges they face in accessing healthcare. Her undergraduate thesis was on refugee artists and how they create place through their work. She is now undertaking her PhD in social anthropology on how artmaking supports placemaking, wellbeing, and identity formation for those who have been forcibly displaced.

She studied theatre and anthropology as an undergraduate, and currently runs her own paper-cutting art business under the name Amaranthine Goods Paper Art. She is a devoted cat mum, and her beloved Vail is her ‘studio supervisor’, which really just means eating paper and chewing on the ends of pencils.