Meet Elizabeth
My mom moved to south Morgan County in 1998, when I was nine years old, and I grew up splitting my time between West Virginia and rural Maryland, where my dad worked as a large animal vet. I was part of the first ever youth summer camp at the Ice House in downtown Berkeley Springs, and my first job was a summer internship at the Morgan Messenger, where I wrote about the Humane Society and the Head Start Program.
I’ve been self-employed since my mid-twenties, growing my own business as a writer and writing teacher, many times working odd jobs as a house cleaner, yard keeper, and server to make ends meet. I know what it’s like to come home exhausted and still worry about affording groceries. I want to see policies in our State House that put the needs of working- and middle-class West Virginians first. That’s mostly who we are in this state.
I’m a devoted congregant at Bethel Lutheran Church where I serve as the co-chair of our WATTS Committee, helping provide homeless residents with a safe and warm bed from November to March, and the co-chair of our Justice League, following Micah 6:8, “What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”
I’m a part-time docent at the Ice House in Berkeley Springs and a regular volunteer with the Morgan Arts Council which brings concerts, theater productions, arts programing, and youth summer camps to the residents of the Eastern Panhandle.
