Lizzi Weyant

Department: Executive
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-933-0703

Biography:

Lizzi Weyant is the Deputy Executive Director of Public Affairs & Advocacy at MAPC, where she oversees several MAPC departments and MAPC’s subregional program. Ms. Weyant joined MAPC in 2015 and was promoted to Deputy Executive Director in 2021.

In her prior role of Director of Government Affairs, Ms. Weyant developed and oversaw MAPC’s legislative agenda at the state and federal level, with a focus on MAPC’s priorities. These included a focus on housing and zoning, transportation, clean energy, and resilience. Ms. Weyant worked closely with state and regional coalitions and committees, including serving as legislative staff to the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies, the organization of 13 regional planning agencies in the state, and the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition.

Prior to joining MAPC, Ms. Weyant was the Advocacy Director of Transportation for Massachusetts, a statewide transportation coalition where she successfully advocated for more statewide funding for transportation. Prior to her time at the coalition, Ms. Weyant worked as a staff attorney at the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group, protecting consumers through legal, grassroots and grasstops advocacy, 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.

Areas of Expertise: Strategic decision-making, legislative advocacy, transportation policy and finance, policy analysis, public affairs, coalition coordination.