Kenya

Elizabeth Corbishley

Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer

Elizabeth (Liz) Corbishley joined Village Enterprise as accelerator director in 2017 and was promoted to chief scaling officer in 2020 before being named chief strategy and partnerships officer in 2022.  She has over ten years of experience in the nonprofit sector, focused largely on strategic partnerships, management, and business development. Her passion is in human social impact, and she lived and worked in East Africa for five years prior to joining Village Enterprise.  She has also served as executive director at Molly’s Network, a Tanzanian assessment, accreditation, and capacity-building non-profit organization. Before that, she was a partnerships manager with the international non-governmental youth organization Restless Development.  Liz holds an MBA specializing in corporate social responsibility and a BA in English literature and creative writing.