LIZ HIPPLE

Liz Hipple is the Managing Director of Policy and Research at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality. In this role, she manages and provides strategic direction for the Center’s research and policy agendas to generate policy solutions that increase economic well-being and advance racial and gender equity.

Previously, Liz was the Chief of Staff at the Employee Benefits Security Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor. Before that, she was Senior Advisor in the Office of Capital Access at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, overseeing implementation of the $350 billion State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program. Her prior experience with research and policy development in service of progressive economic policy goals includes time as a Senior Policy Analyst with the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, where she researched labor policy and family economic security issues, including unemployment insurance, paid leave, and affordable childcare. She also developed the strategy for and stood up the first economic mobility program at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth as Senior Policy Advisor. She began her career at the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the Obama Administration as a Special Assistant and Policy Advisor for retirement security issues.

Liz graduated from Swarthmore College with High Honors in Political Science and Public Policy.

Liz is a proud Washingtonian and enjoys reading, watching the Real Housewives, working out with Cody Rigsby, traveling the world with her partner, and coming home to cuddle her French Bulldog, Petunia (he/him).