Liz Carmack has worked as a professional communicator for a Texas state representative, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, KLRU-TV, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). During her 11 years at the TCEQ, she helped scientists, engineers, and policy makers communicate complicated scientific and environmental issues to the public through publications and websites.

Liz began her professional communications career as a reporter and editor at Oklahoma’s third-largest daily newspaper, and later earned a master’s degree in mass communication at the University of Leicester in Leicester, England. Her graduate studies were sponsored by a Rotary International Scholarship.

Liz moonlighted as a freelance writer and webmaster before leaving the TCEQ to research and write Historic Hotels of Texas: A Traveler’s Guide and start Liz Carmack Communications. Her travel writing extends to the web; she serves as the Austin City Expert for the international travel website, homeandabroad.com.

She is on the board of the Association for Women in Communications -- Austin chapter, and is a member of Freelance Austin.