Elizabeth Doerr is a writer, mother, and small business owner in Portland, Oregon.

She writes about issues of social justice, parenting, travel, resiliency, and climate change.

Her first book co-written with Lynn Peterson, Roadways for People: Rethinking Transportation Planning and Engineering will be published in 2019 with Island Press.

She won a Maryland/Delaware/DC Press Association award for her 2015 Baltimore City Paper story about street harassment, "Stop Calling Me 'Baby.’” about women’s experiences—including her own—with street harassment. You can find her work in Parents.com, Bloomberg CityLab, Scalawag Magazine, Portland Monthly, and Baltimore City Paper among other publications.

Elizabeth is the founder and principal of the social impact writing and communications consulting company, Doerr&Co. and co-founder of the community for writer-moms, Scribente Maternum. She has a few degrees, one of which is a Master's in Writing from Johns Hopkins University.