12/16/2025
⭐️⭐️ Spotlight ⭐️⭐️
Elisabeth was born and raised in Los Angeles, where preparedness for emergencies is a way of life. She took her first CPR class at age 12 (originally to qualify as a babysitter and to earn her First Aid badge in Girl Scouts) and went on to achieve the organization’s highest honor, the First Class Award (now known as the Gold Award). As a Senior Scout, Elisabeth trained and evaluated younger scouts in basic survival and emergency response skills. Later, as a college professor in Los Angeles, she chaired the Work Environment and Safety & Preparedness Committees for a campus serving more than 10,000 students, helping lead campus-wide safety initiatives. Now living in Indiana with her husband, Jonathan (also a Take Action Safety Instructor), Elisabeth remains actively involved in House of Worship Safety & Preparedness planning and training. Elisabeth understands the importance of lifesaving skills on a deeply personal level. As a child, she experienced two choking emergencies, once on a plum pit and once on a wooden ice cream spoon. Both incidents were resolved using outdated methods, which is why she strongly advocates for modern, evidence-based choking response techniques taught today.
