Georgia Lyon is a Communications Associate at the EFI Foundation. In this role, she writes and copy edits blog posts, social media posts, fact sheets, and reports. Lyon also creates graphics to help distill and convey key concepts in EFI Foundation’s work.
Lyon is a nonprofit communications professional who has used her passion for writing to promote social justice and equity. She first discovered this passion as a teenager when she wrote and illustrated, How to Be Human: Diary of an Autistic Girl, about growing up as an autistic person. Lyon wrote under the pen name Florida Frenz and published her book with the children’s book company, Creston Books. Since then, she has held a variety of positions in the public and nongovernmental organization sectors that look at how the findings of policy research can be conveyed clearly to mobilize positive change, focusing primarily on affordable housing, healthcare, and education. Before starting at the EFI Foundation, Lyon was a communications assistant at Campaign Legal Center (CLC), an election law nonprofit that works to protect American democracy.
Lyon is an alumna of Whitman College, where she graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in politics in 2019.
