Elizabeth is a citizen of the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun in Mayo Yukon. She has a degree in social work and certificate in Women鈥檚 Studies that compliments the cultural knowledge she has in respect of the matrilineal custom in Yukon. She has worked with many First Nation groups like the Yukon Native Brotherhood, the Yukon Association of Non Status Indians, the Council for Yukon Indians, the Yukon Aboriginal Women鈥檚 Association, the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre, the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center, the Department of Indian Affairs, the City of Whitehorse, Yukon Territorial Government and the Department of Education. Through the Council of Yukon First Nations, she also sits on the Yukon Surface Rights Board, a quasi judicial board and the Nacho Nyak Dun Farm Planning Committee. Currently she works with the Yukon University as an Elder.
She is the youngest of 10 children of Gwichin and Northern Tutchone descent and helped her mother and father cut and dry fish and meat, pick roots and berries, fish, get spring sap, pack water and burn the spring grass. Through the traditional law program with the Northern Tutchone Council she learned about the current harvesting, family connections and the language which her parents were fluent in. Elizabeth recognizes that Alaska and the Yukon Territory are expected to experience rapid change and believes the IAC will 鈥渙pen another window to view the global perspective and sharing with the Council may help to create a positive adaptation and understanding process. I believe science compliments traditional laws of Indigenous people.鈥�