Liz Kramer

Liz Kramer (she/her/hers) has a background in developing and executing on complex projects, sometimes at record speed. She is a principal at Public Design Bureau, a St. Louis-based firm that helps people working for the public good to design meaningful, engaging, human-centered change.

She designed and led the Office for Socially Engaged Practice at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis from 2014-2022. She teaches classes on community engagement, interaction design, empathy, and human-centered design. She studied engineering, writing, and theater at WashU, and went on to study human centered design at Northwestern University. She is a past Community Arts Training Institute Fellow (2018) with the Regional Arts Commission, and a New Leaders Council Fellow (2019). She serves as the co-chair of the City of St. Louis Community Mobility Committee, as a community garden leader, and as a tender of her front-yard wildflower garden.