Liz Coufal

Liz is passionate about social impact, beginning her career at a climate justice nonprofit before entering Austin’s tech industry in 2015. After helping build Capital Factory’s startup community, Liz left to join Valkyrie, a data science consulting firm in 2018. In addition to her role as Director of Business Development, Liz leads her company’s social good venture, Valkyrie Virtue, which provides high-impact nonprofits with cutting-edge machine learning services. Liz is passionate about civic activation and co-founded GoodPolitics in 2019 to bring together people in order to make the democratic process more human, accessible and fun. She is an active advisory board member of Austin Technology Alliance and serves on the leadership committee for Austinites for Progressive Reform.