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Liza fell in love with nature as a child growing up on the Ecuadorian coast. Her passion for storytelling manifested at the age of seven, when she began filming her friends as they recreated stories from her parents' library.

Liza later combined her audiovisual passion with her love for nature by majoring in Environmental Communication and Digital Animation. She began making documentary films, animations, and photographs aimed at inspiring communities to care for their natural habitats and cultures. Her background as a photographer in Ecuador's main theatres, along with Fundación Teatro Nacional Sucre, marked the way she approaches stories from an artistic angle. Liza evolved from the theatre's backstage to document the work conservationists, scientists, educators, naturalists, and citizen scientists do behind the scenes of nature conservation and sustainable development in local communities. She had the opportunity to join a scientific sailing expedition documenting and studying cetaceans throughout the Central Pacific, the Galápagos Marine Reserve and mainland Ecuador's Marine Reserves.

She is now a professional conservationist and artist dedicated to inspiring and educating in small communities around Ecuador using creative audiovisual communications for environmental education and conservation.

While working with the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the Galapagos National Park, Liza contributed to a short film promoting greater international protection for the Scalloped Hammerhead Shark. She also documented several seasons of the Mangrove Finch Project. She travelled onboard the Lindblad Expeditions - National Geographic Endeavour II to retrieve the rarest and most threatened Darwin's finches eggs for hatching and hand rearing at the Charles Darwin Research Station in Puerto Ayora, Galápagos. Working with Conservation International Ecuador, Liza created short films documenting the first major remote coastal cleanup of the Galápagos Marine Reserve, also the collaboration between fisherman and the Ecuadorian Government towards protecting mangroves in mainland Ecuador's coastal areas.

Today, Liza hopes to transmit her experience and love for her country to visitors from around the globe working as a Video Chronicler for Lindblad Expeditions - National Geographic, hoping to inspire appreciation and support for wildlife and habitat conservation in Ecuador and all other magical places on Earth.

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