Liz Barry
Executive Director at TreeKIT
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLiz Barry is an experienced civic technology and community-building leader with 13 years of professional experience bridging design, urban systems, and open-source software. As Executive Director of Metagov and co-founder of Public Laboratory and TreeKIT, she blends organizational leadership with hands-on product and community development to advance participatory governance and environmental sensing. Her background as an educator and urban designer at institutions like Columbia and The New School informs a systems-thinking approach to projects that couple spatial practice with digital tools. A practical coder and contributor to publiclab/plots2, she brings front-end and Rails experience to collaborative, volunteer-driven platforms. Liz is known for turning grassroots experiments into durable institutions, and for pairing pedagogical rigor with creative fieldwork that surfaces unexpected public insights.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BLA, Landscape Architecture, BLA, Landscape Architecture at North Carolina State UniversityWilliams HSMSAUD, Urban Design, MSAUD, Urban Design at Columbia University - Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Github Skills (9)
html10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
javascript9
friendly-url7
wan7
user-friendly7
collaboration7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
publiclab/plots2
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
a collaborative knowledge-exchange platform in Rails; we welcome first-time contributors! :balloon:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 2 commits, 8 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Liz contributed to various aspects of the `plots2` repository, primarily focusing on front-end and Rails application development. Their work included updating the footer and header components, modifying the home page, and fixing a bug within the tag controller. They also implemented changes related to menu items and their ordering within the header.
ruby-on-railsballoonexchangefirst-timersknowledge
edgi-govdata-archiving/DataRescueTEMPLATE
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 5 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 days
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