Liz Beaven, EdD, has been involved in Waldorf education for 40 years as a class teacher, school administrator, adult educator, researcher, writer, parent, and grandparent. Born and educated in New Zealand, she began her journey in Waldorf education at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City then spent 21 years at the Sacramento Waldorf School as a class teacher and school administrator. She received a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of California, Davis in 2011. She served for a short period as President of Rudolf Steiner College in California and was Provost of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco before taking her current position as the Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education. She has been actively engaged in the expansion of Waldorf education in the US into public schools from the early 1990s. Liz is a member of the Ideal Learning Round Table, a national advocacy group, a participant in the Waldorf Associations Working Group, and participates in international research on Waldorf education.