Liza Mueller
Interim President
Liza Mueller is Interim President of Echoing Green, a global nonprofit impact accelerator that supports emerging social entrepreneurs and invests deeply in their ideas and leadership.
Liza brings nearly two decades of experience in program strategy and evaluation, research and knowledge management, and storytelling to her role as Interim President at Echoing Green. During her tenure at Echoing Green, Liza has previously overseen its operations and programs functions and was most recently the Vice President of Thought Leadership.
Liza believes that transformational social change can happen only when deep trust, respect, and community voice are centered across the board. In 2020, Echoing Green and The Bridgespan Group published Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table, which was the product of nearly nine years of patient data collection and research by Liza, her team, and Echoing Green’s programs staff. Her team also produces regular reports on trends in the social entrepreneurship field and contributes to research across the sector. Liza is an active Echoing Green representative on cross-sector alliances, including Catalyst Now, the World Economic Forum Social Enterprise Alliance, and a number of collectives exploring the challenges and opportunities of AI in the social sector. She is a dynamic public speaker who has presented on topics ranging from theory of change development, impact management, access to capital, and more.
Before joining Echoing Green, Liza’s career focused on creatively designing and implementing systems to collect, organize, and share information to further the mission and goals of remarkable organizations, entrepreneurs, and artists. Liza holds a degree in biology from Hendrix College and completed the Lift Economy Next Economy MBA. She is an Aspen Ideas Fellow and a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, an honor that took her to Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Brazil to study conservation and economic development.
