About Liz
Elizabeth “Liz” Smith-Incer is a happily employed planner with the National Park Service (NPS) helping communities to connect to one another and reconnect to the natural world around us all. Although her commitment as a public servant is a full-time effort, Liz is also able to share her insight, wisdom and passion in supporting the work the Connected Realities team is doing in the world.
In her work with the NPS Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program, she contributes expertise in facilitation, public outreach and resource assessment to help achieve community-identified goals with local partners throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Liz’s scope of community projects from the deserts of Arizona and Nevada to the Mississippi Delta to the Island ecosystem of Puerto Rico has honed her personal awareness of the vast interconnectedness of the need for healing our communities and healing our natural ecosystems.
Back in the early 1990s, after receiving her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, she relocated to Washington, DC to work at the United States Department of State, serving in the Office of International Environmental, Oceans & Scientific Affairs and the Office of Inter-American Affairs. Wandering around the streets of Washington, DC as a young person inspired her curiosity for learning more about our neighbors around the world and from 1994 to 1998, Liz served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer assisting to improve environmental education and address deforestation in Nicaragua. This is also where Liz developed her Spanish language fluency which has helped her connect with people, needs, and issues in Spanish-speaking communities.
After returning from Central America, Liz attended the University of Arizona where she earned a master’s degree of Public Administration with a concentration in Renewable Natural Resources. During her time as a graduate student, Liz interned with the National Park Service, was soon hired full-time, and has been helping to inspire this and future generations to care for ourselves and our natural world ever since.
In her free time, Liz is just trying to “figure it all out” while raising two daughters and her family pets. She enjoys exploring her wild backyard in Southern Mississippi and spends time nurturing wayward plant cuttings into revitalized beings as an act of kindness towards our Earth.
In her work with the NPS Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program, she contributes expertise in facilitation, public outreach and resource assessment to help achieve community-identified goals with local partners throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Liz’s scope of community projects from the deserts of Arizona and Nevada to the Mississippi Delta to the Island ecosystem of Puerto Rico has honed her personal awareness of the vast interconnectedness of the need for healing our communities and healing our natural ecosystems.
Back in the early 1990s, after receiving her bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, she relocated to Washington, DC to work at the United States Department of State, serving in the Office of International Environmental, Oceans & Scientific Affairs and the Office of Inter-American Affairs. Wandering around the streets of Washington, DC as a young person inspired her curiosity for learning more about our neighbors around the world and from 1994 to 1998, Liz served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer assisting to improve environmental education and address deforestation in Nicaragua. This is also where Liz developed her Spanish language fluency which has helped her connect with people, needs, and issues in Spanish-speaking communities.
After returning from Central America, Liz attended the University of Arizona where she earned a master’s degree of Public Administration with a concentration in Renewable Natural Resources. During her time as a graduate student, Liz interned with the National Park Service, was soon hired full-time, and has been helping to inspire this and future generations to care for ourselves and our natural world ever since.
In her free time, Liz is just trying to “figure it all out” while raising two daughters and her family pets. She enjoys exploring her wild backyard in Southern Mississippi and spends time nurturing wayward plant cuttings into revitalized beings as an act of kindness towards our Earth.
