Liz Budd Is a native of Franklin County Massachusettes. She is now an Environmental Justice and Dance Double Major at Mount Holyoke College. Her hopes are to use the arts as a tool to empower and teach communities and individuals faced with increasing environmental issues in order to work towards solutions and increase awareness. "Art is a universal form of communication, no matter what ethnicity, education, religion we are or what language we speak we can all find meaning in a photograph. "

Liz is currently a resident of Holyoke MA and works as an Environmental Organizer for the Community-based organization Nuestras Raices where her work focuses on community-based research, data collection, educational programming, organizing community forums aimed at increasing awareness and building resources to tackle important Environmental Justice issues.