Elizabeth Grzeszczyk

Elizabeth Grzeszczyk was born, raised and educated in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts. After realizing she had more to offer the world, she returned to school in her late twenties, and graduated cum laude from Mount Holyoke College as a Francis Perkins Scholar. She continued her education at the University of Massachusetts graduating with a M.S. degree in Analytical Chemistry. Her varied but never boring career has included farming, monitoring clinical studies around the country for Bayer Pharmaceuticals, marketing, co-owner of an import business selling hand crafted decoratives from Germany, and working as a paralegal in a real estate law firm. Her love of travel began in high school when she visited Germany and Austria with her German class and Ireland with her high school band. Since then she has enjoyed traveling to other countries including France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, England, Brazil and Mexico. Elizabeth has also lived and worked in Germany. Elizabeth is the very proud mother of a son, Daniel, who works for the U.S. Forestry Service in Idaho. A warm climate and love of the outdoors lured Elizabeth to California where she can enjoy traveling, swimming, golfing, walking and biking year round. Elizabeth's story has been featured on "Unsolved Mysteries" and in "Marie Claire", "Sports Illustrated" and "Car and Driver" magazines. Her story has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles, not only in the United States but abroad as well including "News of the World" in England, "The Sunday Times" in South Africa and "Israeli Insider" in Israel. Elizabeth has been a popular speaker for numerous civic groups and women's organizations who have found her story inspiring as well as educational.