Elizabeth Barajas-Román

At NLIRH, Elizabeth is responsible for advancing the Institute’s policy agenda and legislative priorities, and for managing the Washington, D.C. office.

Elizabeth comes to the Latina Institute with experience as a health care policy analyst, journalist and researcher. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. Her writing focuses on social justice in health, education and politics. She has worked for the New York Times Company, as a freelancer for several national and regional magazines, and her investigation on students with limited English proficiency was published in Working with Student Writers: Essays on Tutoring and Teaching, Second Edition. Elizabeth most recently served as the Associate Director of The Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, (PopDev), where she directed new and existing programs and developed strategies for a national and international agenda to challenge conventional thinking and policies about population growth. Additionally, she helped develop new alliances as a member of the SisterSong national steering committee for environmental and reproductive justice. Previously, Elizabeth has worked for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts as a City Planner and as the Director of Policy and Operations at an advocacy organization and primary care clinic for uninsured, GLBT, homeless and immigrant youth in Boston. Elizabeth graduated from Oberlin College with highest honors and holds a Master's degree in international policy from Harvard.