Liz Strong - Incite at Columbia University

Liz Strong was Oral History Projects Manager at Incite Institute from 2024-2026, and Manager of the Obama Presidency Oral History project from 2019-2024.

While at Incite, Liz also contributed to oral histories of the Open Society Foundations, and the Obama Foundation Scholars Program at Columbia University. She also advised on the Movements Against Mass Incarceration Lab, and the Baldwin-Emerson Elders Project.

Prior to joining Incite in 2019, she spent two years as Project Coordinator for the Muslims in Brooklyn Public History Project at the Center for Brooklyn History. From 2015 to 2019, Liz was also the Oral History Program Manager for the New York Preservation Archive Project (NYPAP). As a freelance oral historian and personal historian, from 2010 to 2015, she worked with a variety of clients, including the Washington Department of Commerce in 2013 and the University of Arizona Steward Observatory in 2012.

She was a member of the Oral History Association's (OHA) task force on Oral History and the Law, 2024-2026; she was a founding co-chair of the OHA Advocacy Committee, 2021-2024; and she was a member of the 2018 OHA task force on Principles & Best Practices. Liz received an MA in Oral History from Columbia in 2015 and a BA in Narrative Arts from Oberlin College in 2009.