Lizzi grew up in rural Colorado and moved to Northern California over a decade ago to attend Humboldt State University (now Cal Poly Humboldt) where she completed a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation Biology in 2016. She has done research on habitat use of mesocarnivores, impacts of anthropogenic landscape change on osprey nesting success and nest site selection, and blood parasites in osprey nestlings. She is extremely active in the local community and contributes to long-term monitoring in the area in a variety of ways including volunteering at the Humboldt Bay Bird Observatory, the California Bumble Bee Atlas, and leading birding trips with the Redwood Region Audubon Society. During the hunting season, she can be found in the woods/mud hunting for birds with her fiancé and three dogs. Lizzi works as a wildlife biologist for Dudek, an employee-owned environmental consulting firm. She is also currently an NSF Graduate Research Fellow joining Dr. Matt Johnson's Habitat Ecology Lab at Cal Poly Humboldt to continue one of the longest running raptor projects in North America, the Butte Valley Swainson's Hawk project, for her graduate studies.

Lizzi grew up in rural Colorado and moved to Northern California over a decade ago to attend Humboldt State University where she completed a B.S. in Wildlife Conservation Biology. She has researched habitat use of mesocarnivores, impacts of anthropogenic landscape change on osprey nesting success and nest site selection, and blood parasites in osprey nestlings. She is dedicated to mentoring early career professionals and students whenever possible. Lizzi works as a wildlife biologist for Dudek, an employee-owned environmental consulting firm. She is also currently an NSF Graduate Research Fellow joining the Johnson Habitat Ecology Lab at Cal Poly Humboldt to continue one of the longest running raptor projects in North America, the Butte Valley Swainson's Hawk project, for her graduate studies.

Being a big sister is deeply ingrained in her and she is dedicated to mentoring early career professionals and students whenever possible. She is an active member of the Raptor Research Foundation (serving on the Early Career Raptor Researchers Committee and Code of Conduct Committee) and at The Wildlife Society (serving on the California North Coast Chapter board, as well as on the Western Section board in a number of capacities including leading monthly virtual workshops for students and early career professionals, and is a recent graduate of TWS's Leadership Institute). She is always eager to share resources and collaborate, so feel free to reach out at any point.