Lizzi Weyant
Deputy Executive Director
Department: Executive
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-933-0703
Biography:
Lizzi Weyant 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. She oversees 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 is currently serving on the Massachusetts Energy Transformation Advisory Board and works closely with MAPC’s sister Regional Planning Agencies (RPAs) as part of the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies (MARPA) and the Metropolitan Mayors Coalition (MMC).
Prior to joining MAPC, Ms. Weyant was the Advocacy Director of Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA), 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