About Elizabeth

Elizabeth Pancotti recently joined Groundwork Collaborative as the Managing Director of Policy and Advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative. She was previously the Director of Special Initiatives at the Roosevelt Institute, where she led the think tank’s work on tax policy. Prior to Roosevelt, she was an advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), serving as the Labor Policy Director of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and as a senior budget analyst on the Senate Budget Committee. During her time in the Senate, she led efforts to compel Howard Shultz to testify about union-busting at Starbucks and secure paid sick leave for rail workers and played a key role in industrial policy investments passed as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Before the Senate, she was the policy director at Employ America, where she focused on unemployment insurance benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Guardian. Liz holds a BS in economics from American University. Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, she now lives in Washington, DC.