Elizabeth Christian

Founder and former CEO, ECPR

BY FORREST PREECE

1. What’s something about you that not many people know?

I have a couple of guilty pleasures—one is that I love to sew and have made a good number of the clothes I wear; the second is that I’m a Francophile and am working hard on being fluent in French.

2. What was your first job? While I was a student at McCallum High School, I worked as a checker at the Rylander’s (now a Randall’s) on Balcones. My shins still bear the scars of grocery carts ramming into them!

3. You can have dinner with three people – dead or alive, any time in history— who would they be?

Jane Austen, Eleanor Roosevelt and J.K. Rowling! What a conversation that would be.

4. If you had to pick three musicians for a playlist, who would they be?

Paul McCartney, Johnny Flynn and Frank Sinatra.

5. Favorite book and TV show?

Book: Tie between Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. TV show: The Detectorists on BBC. Look it up if you haven’t watched it. You’ll thank me forever.

6. Most powerful movie you have seen? I have literally dozens of favorite movies. The original “Rocky” sticks out because I saw it with my dad and he cried when Rocky triumphed. “The Return of the King” is probably the one I’ve watched the most often, a close tie with “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

7. Favorite place in Austin? The LBJ Library

8. What did you want to