About Me

Liz Lance holds a bachelor's degree in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and has completed post-baccalaureate coursework in Nepali language, literature and culture at Tribhuvan University's Bhishwa Bhasha campus in Nepal. Liz has also completed graduate work in documentary photography at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and was a participant at the Missouri Photo Workshop in 2007. She begins her MA in journalism at the University of Missouri in 2009.

After studying for one academic year on the University of Wisconsin's College Year in Nepal program in 1998-99, Liz returned to Nepal and lived in Kathmandu from 2001 to 2003. After an additional three-month visit in 2006, Liz began noticing vast changes in the media landscape and how young women presented themselves in public, which led to this research. Liz lived in Nepal from September 2008 through June 2009 on a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship, during which time she completed all of the work presented within this website.

Liz has been working as a print, radio and photojournalist for over ten years. Her written work has appeared in World Press Review Magazine, WAVE Magazine, Nepali Times, Himal South Asian, The Telluride Watch Newspaper, Shelter Magazine and Telluride Magazine, among others. Her photographs have appeared in The Maine Switch, The Onion, The Telluride Watch Newspaper, WAVE Magazine, Himal Khabar Patrika, Nepali Times, among others. As a radio journalist, Liz served as the News Director of WSUM-Madison Student Radio, was a contributing producer and reporter for KOTO-FM in Telluride, Colorado, as well as a volunteer DJ at KOTO-FM and KUSF-FM in San Francisco, California. She recently produced two Nepali-language features for the "Nepal Chautari" program through Antenna FM in Kathmandu.

Liz's professional interests include long-form multi-media documentary storytelling, incorporating audio, photo and print to tell stories that challenge the mass media status quo.