Eliza Waters

Eliza Waters has been actively involved with the NICA Fund since 2003, when she joined the Loan Fund Oversight Committee. She currently works as Assistant Director of the BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, a USAID-funded program focusing on international development and poverty alleviation. She earned her master’s degree from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her thesis was on the outreach and impact of different types of lending institutions in Nicaragua. Prior to coming to Madison, Eliza worked as a research assistant at the Global Development and Environment Institute, an independent research group based in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She also worked on a community-based conservation project for the RARE Center for Tropical Conservation in Mexico. Eliza has a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy Studies from Duke University.