Lizz Sinclair

Lizz Sinclair has been a Program Officer for the Maine Humanities Council for the past ten years, directing the Let’s Talk About It program for libraries and organizing Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care®, an award-winning reading and discussion group for health care professionals. As the Program Officer for Literature & Medicine in Maine and nationally, she has been involved in every phase of the program: working with scholars and healthcare professionals in organizing programs; organizing state and national conferences and bi-annual national training institutes, as well as local and national presentations about the program; working with the program evaluator on design and implementation of program evaluation; and editing and writing for Synapse, Literature & Medicine’s e-zine.

Lizz is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a degree in history and theatre design; she also graduated cum laude from the Maine College of Art. She studied community building with the Urban Theological Unit in Sheffield, England, and artist-designed-and-run community art programs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Yorkshire, England; and Portland, Maine.