Lizzie Blaisdell Collins is the Vice President of Engineering for Build Change, a non-profit social enterprise with a critical mission of preventing housing losses caused by disasters. After working early in her career with a private sector earthquake engineering firm in San Francisco, USA, Lizzie joined Build Change’s Haiti team as Lead Structural Engineer, supporting the recovery from the 2010 earthquake. Lizzie later moved into a global oversight role across the engineering teams, working to provide technical assistance to communities rebuilding after disasters or preparing their homes to prevent the next disaster through the application of simplified evaluation and retrofit methodologies for vulnerable housing. With Lizzie's technical leadership, Build Change has developed seven reference documents for disaster-resistant housing or retrofit that have been adopted or endorsed at the national level in five countries. Lizzie earned an M.S. in Structural Engineering Mechanics and Materials from the University of California, Berkeley following her completion of a B.S.E. in Civil Engineering with a Structural Focus at Princeton University. She is licensed as both a Civil Engineer and Structural Engineer in California. In 2016, Lizzie was awarded the Shah Family Innovation Prize through the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute for her work with Build Change.