Elizabeth Ott acted as the 2018-2019 Freedom By Design Advisory Committee Chair where she worked alongside seven other committee members across the nation and the President of AIAS. As a part of the FBD Live initiative, she wished to help this effort along by leading and encouraging others to take the knowledge and conversation about sustainability back to their respective universities. She is a recent Bachelor of Architecture graduate from the University of Tennessee and hopes to practice and encourage service architecture and public-interest design into the professional practice.