Liz Fortney was born in Washington D.C. She moved to Shepherdstown, W. Va as a teenager, and later attended the University of Kentucky. She spent most of her career in Cincinnati as director of Employee Benefits Consulting for a regional company, working with municipalities and corporate clients in negotiating union benefit contracts. Liz visited Utah frequently over the course of her working years and purchased a home in Kayenta in 2012. After the sale of the company, Liz moved to Kayenta full time in 2016 to pursue her passion of photography. Liz is excited to be a part of the Kayenta Arts Foundation as it enters its fourth year of providing diverse, thought provoking, world class theater.