Elizabeth Sink is a Master Teaching Instructor with a passion for facilitating healthy engagement across different identities. She has taught at Colorado State University since 2004 in Communication Studies, the KEY Communities and the University Honors Program.

Elizabeth’s teaching practice strives to promote investigation of a student’s own complex identity and develop communication competencies to advance motivation for constructive engagement across difference. Much of her curriculum advances pluralistic engagement between people who orient around religious and non-religious belief differently.

Through a Leadership Fellowship in 2021 she spearheaded and currently leads CSU’s Multifaith & Belief Initiatives, under the Vice Present for Student Affairs’ Office. These initiatives aim to focus greater attention on spiritual, religious and secular (non-religious) belief identities by educating, celebrating and promoting constructive engagement across belief differences.

Outside the classroom, Elizabeth and her family enjoy backpacking in the great outdoors of Colorado and Wyoming. She is a dog-person who enjoys taking deep breaths, traveling, rock painting, roller coasters, microwavable slippers (forever-cold toes), contra dancing and acapella singing at the Colorado Renaissance Fair in the summers.