Elizabeth Chur

Elizabeth Chur is a Swing Left San Francisco volunteer and freelance medical writer. She has trained more than 2,500 volunteers nationally through three acclaimed workshops – Phone Bank and Canvassing Training for Introverts (& Friends), Spanish for Activists, and You and the 34%: How to Have Meaningful Conversations with High-Potential Voters. A former journalist and documentary radio producer, she studied development of free press in Eastern Europe as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, and was part of a UC Berkeley team which won a George Polk Award for their radio documentary, “Reports from a Warming Planet.” She has also worked in homeless services and arts administration. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.