Lizzi Weyant
Executive Director
Department: Executive
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-933-0703
Biography:
In August 2025, Lizzi Weyant was unanimously appointed as Executive Director by the MAPC Executive Committee. She served as the Acting Executive Director from June 2025 to August 2025.
As Executive Director, Ms. Weyant leads the 130-member staff who provide technical and professional support to the 101 cities and towns of the greater Boston Region.
She joined MAPC in the spring of 2015 and was promoted to Deputy Executive Director of Public Affairs & Advocacy in 2021, and Deputy Executive Director in 2023. As Deputy Executive Director, she oversaw MAPC’s transportation, clean energy, public health, municipal services, and public affairs work along with MAPC’s subregional program.
In her time at MAPC, Ms. Weyant has helped to develop and oversee MAPC’s legislative agenda and the recommendations included in MAPC’s regional plan, MetroCommon2050. She works closely with state and regional coalitions and committees, served on the Massachusetts Commission on Energy Infrastructure Siting and Permitting, and was co-chair of the Healey/Driscoll transition committee on Climate and Energy. She works closely with MAPC’s sister Regional Planning Agencies as part of the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies, the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition and the North Shore Coalition, two coalitions of municipal leaders.
Prior to joining MAPC, Ms. Weyant was the Advocacy Director of Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA), a statewide transportation coalition. Prior to her time at the coalition, Ms. Weyant worked as a staff attorney at the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group, with a focus on transportation issues and consumer affairs.
Upon her graduation from law school, Ms. Weyant clerked for the Honorable Justice Susan Calkins of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and then began practicing law in Pennsylvania.
Ms. Weyant earned a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from Carnegie Mellon University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. She lives in Medford.