Welcome Elizabeth!
Elizabeth is our new Project and Events Manager, passionate about her background in public engagement. She’s doing an amazing job keeping DataKind’s programmes and events running while our Head of Volunteer Programmes Suzy is on parental leave, and in her spare time can be found looking after two cats!
What were you up to before DataKind?
Before joining DataKind, I worked in the social innovation sector in Hong Kong as a public engagement consultant. This involved gauging opinions and proposing solutions or social experiments to process innovations in town planning, education, social mobility, and more. From shifting brand focus, to matching new market demands, to challenging public institutions to rethink their purpose. Creating empathy and awareness is central to my work.
Why are you excited to join DataKind?
DataKind is a very progressive and bottom-up organisation, carrying out innovative programmes with volunteer-led approaches. To see how much trust and confidence an organisation is willing to share with the community is very refreshing, and I’m excited to learn more.
I believe an open and honest approach is instrumental to creating a more empowered community and unleashing each individual’s full potential. I’m honoured to have the opportunity to help cultivate this brilliant community and equip charities with the right skills and mindsets to excel in their uses of data. Seeing how data scientists do their magic with data is just mesmerising!
What do you like to do in your free time?
In my spare time, I’m a passionate scuba diver, and I also paint magical creatures in tiny shells. Sadly, given the UK weather is much colder, I have visited the sea much less. But this has also given me a new opportunity to discover other possibilities in life! My newfound hobby is to do farm and forest conservation work in local farms.
Other than that, I’m a full-time, busy cat mum of two. They make sure I’m always busy around the house.
