Senior Director, Community Outreach and Homeless Services
Liberation Programs, Inc.
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut
Liz Evans is an internationally recognized leader in harm reduction with more than 30 years of experience advancing compassionate, community-based responses to substance use, homelessness, and complex health needs. She began her career as a nurse working in low-income communities, supporting individuals who frequently cycled through emergency departments and fragmented systems of care.
She went on to help build and lead a grassroots nonprofit that developed an integrated, low-barrier model of support—providing housing, food, medical and dental care, banking, detox and treatment services, employment, and social programs—serving more than 8,000 people daily.
Liz played a key role in opening Insite, North America’s first supervised injection site, in 2003. The program provided life-saving overdose prevention services and became a global model for public health–based approaches to substance use.
Today, Liz serves as Senior Director of Community Outreach and Homeless Services at Liberation Programs, where she leads overdose prevention, harm reduction, and outreach initiatives. Her work focuses on engaging high-risk populations, building cross-sector partnerships with healthcare and public safety systems, and bridging the divide between harm reduction and treatment to increase access to care and save lives.
Poster 26 - Breaking Down the Harm Reduction and Addiction Treatment Divide
Monday, April 27, 2026
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM MDT