Occupation: Graduate Student and Social Worker
University: University of Washington
Organizations: About Face: Veterans Against War, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights-UW, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, (former) Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, (former) Students for Justice In Palestine (Evergreen State College)
Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-moore-simpson-b820a314a/
Elizabeth grew up in Seattle and received her BA from Evergreen State College in Olympia. Elizabeth is active in her anti-Zionist Jewish community and has worked with Jewish Voice for Peace, Students for Justice in Palestine, OlyBDS, TESCDIVEST and the anti-war veterans rights organization, About Face: Veterans Against War. She has spent time in the West Bank doing solidarity work with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Elizabeth continues to do local and international solidarity organizing focusing on indigenous sovereignty. She is currently pursuing her Master in Social Work at the University of Washington and works as a social worker with the urban native community in Seattle at United Indians of All Tribes Foundation.
“I am excited for the new ‘movement moment’ in which the connection between the black liberation and Palestinian liberation is irrefutable and beyond that, widely accepted.” #blacklivesmatter #freepalestine