Liz Foote

Liz Foote is a PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies & Sustainability at Antioch University New England. Her academic background is in marine ecology and science education, and she has been working as a marine conservation practitioner in Hawai‘i for over two decades. However, in 2013 she was exposed to two things that changed the trajectory of her career– the ABT (via Randy Olson’s second book, Connection) and social marketing (the application of marketing strategies and the social sciences to drive behavior change). She ended up joining Randy’s crew in 2014 and has been helping teach the ABT Framework ever since through Story Circles Narrative Training, the ABT Course, and by offering both solicited and unsolicited feedback on narrative structure to her friends and colleagues. In 2017 she went back to grad school and is in the process of becoming a social scientist. She is studying behavioral science and focusing her dissertation research on the adoption, uptake and diffusion of social marketing as an innovative practice within environmental sustainability and natural resource conservation contexts around the world, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.