Eliza grew up in South London and joined HIAS+JCORE as the Unaccompanied Minors Project Lead in February 2023. Eliza has completed a Masters in Migration and Global Development from the University of Sussex, and has most recently worked as an employment caseworker and as a Manager at the social enterprise Luminary Bakery. Eliza has also spent time working in Greece on a search and rescue team, and went on to write a research piece on the criminalisation of humanitarian aid in the EU.