Elliott Schwebach is an Equity and Justice Lead with the Washington State Bar Association. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, and during this time, also attended the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis as a student of their two-year Psychoanalytic Studies Program. In addition to his work in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, Elliott has taught courses in American Government, Legal Studies, and even a class entitled Better Call Saul and the Law.

For his dissertation, currently under contract to be published with Routledge, Elliott analyzed debates about the ethics of private property in relation to psychoanalytic approaches toward human behavior and experience. He emphasized the decolonial approach of Frantz Fanon as it can serve to inform these debates in psychologically and politically productive ways.

As an editor, co-author, and sole author, Elliott has also produced research spanning the fields of political theory, psychotherapy, global public health, and curriculum and instruction. This has included interdisciplinary work with DVW consultant Benjamin Tellie that investigates ways that teachers can approach projects and discussions about racial oppression in the classroom. As part of this collaborative experience, Ben and Elliott worked for many weeks with high school art students to facilitate educational, artistic studies of racial identity with a combined emphasis on colonial history and (inter)personal feelings, safely explored.