Meet Elizabeth
Founder & Lead Consultant
A storyteller at heart, Elizabeth Gilbert Kaetzel has nearly a decade of experience implementing communications strategies within the social impact sector. As Founder of Narratur Studio, she crafts messaging and strategies that aligns with organizations' values and advances their social impact and capital goals. Elizabeth’s work is grounded in a narrative-driven approach to support inclusive, systemic change for a more equitable future.
Elizabeth’s unique perspective combines a background in social science, philanthropy, impact investing, and community development. After studying narrative and belonging as an academic, Elizabeth decided to apply her passion for storytelling to impact finance. Prior to Narratur Studio she served in leadership roles at Adasina Social Capital and Confluence Philanthropy, contributing to notable projects such as the Due Diligence 2.0 Commitment, advocating for greater diversity in asset management, and the blog series "Race in Finance: Making Black Lives Matter in Financial Services.”
Elizabeth’s work has been featured in Morningstar and she was named one of LA Times B2B Publishing’s 2023 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Visionaries. She also helps to publish Renegade Capital, the financial activist’s podcast.
Elizabeth holds an M.A. in Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley, where she specialized in the study of narrative and belonging, and a B.A. in Anthropology from Trinity University. Elizabeth is also an active member of Radical Communicators, The Communications Network, and Justice Funders.
As a Certified Enneagram Coach, Elizabeth also brings her experience in people management to team and individual coaching. Elizabeth uses Enneagram Coaching to increase empathy and improve communication, using stories to do good at a personal and professional level.
In her free time she reads as many books as she can get her hands on, cares for her 60+ houseplants, writes creative fiction, and swims in open water races.