Liz Veazey, Regional Campus Coordinator, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
March 3rd, 2009 ›
Liz oversees Southern Alliance for Clean Energy’s work with students and youth around the Southeast through the Southern Energy Network. Her work is focused on fundraising, supporting staff and interns, working with our youth leaders steering committee, collaborating with other organizations, and working on online and offline communications. Southern Energy Network supports campus initiatives for clean energy and coordinates regional youth summits and state networks working for state clean energy initiatives and fighting new dirty energy proposals. Liz cofounded the Energy Action Coalition in 2004 and has been really involved in the youth climate movement since including helping to start the international youth climate blog: www.itsgettinghotinhere.org and co-chairing of the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee from 2006-2008. In her free time, Liz enjoys biking, hiking, yoga and listening to Appalachian music. Liz won the Morris K. Udall scholarship, a national environmental leadership scholarship, in both 2002 & 2003. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with highest honors in 2004 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science and a Minor in Biology.
