 Liz
Speake
Liz Speake is the Business Manager for the Kerr Center. She
is responsible for paying the bills, payroll, keeping up
with budgets and grant billing plus all the other things
that fall under the business department umbrella.
Liz was raised on a cattle ranch near Wister and started
to work part-time for the Kerr Foundation while a high
school student and continued during summer and Christmas
breaks while attending college. She received her
Bachelor’s degree in Business from East Central Oklahoma
State University. She started back to work for the
Kerr Foundation in 1983 and set up the business system
records for the new Kerr Center in 1985. In 1994
she took a few years off to have more time with her three
children, but returned to work in 1997. Liz has enjoyed
a variety of responsibilities at the Kerr Center including
working in the education/ communication department. In
2005 she began working in the business department again.
Liz and her husband live in the house she grew up in near
Wister.
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