Liz Marquez joined the National Science Foundation funded Decision Center for a Desert City as Program Manager in May 2011. She is committed to advancing the research, institutional outreach, stakeholder partnership, and education missions of the Decision Center for a Desert City. Since 2005, Liz has worked in various capacities at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and the School of Sustainability. In 2002, she began her career at Arizona State University working for Dr. Jami Shah in the Design Automation Lab, Fulton School of Engineering.