Elizabeth Ann "Liza" Powel (born November 12, 1970, in Bainbridge Island, Washington) is a copywriter who is married to Conan O'Brien. She is the daughter of Seattle Dixieland band-leader Jake Powel .
Liza earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1992 , . In the fall of 2002, Liza was working toward a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University . Her May 2003 thesis reading at Columbia University was part of an event for MFA students in...
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Elizabeth Ann "Liza" Powel (born November 12, 1970, in Bainbridge Island, Washington) is a copywriter who is married to Conan O'Brien. She is the daughter of Seattle Dixieland band-leader Jake Powel .
Liza earned a bachelor's degree from Vassar College in 1992 , . In the fall of 2002, Liza was working toward a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University . Her May 2003 thesis reading at Columbia University was part of an event for MFA students in fiction, non-fiction and poetry concentrations .
Liza was working for the Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB) advertising agency when she met her future husband, host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Powel's creative team from FCB New York was hired in the spring of 2000 to redesign advertisements for O'Brien's Houston sponsor, Hilton Furniture. Liza was the project's senior copywriter. The March 3, 2000, episode of Late Night featured the creative team's work. .
After participating in part of the shoot at FCB, O'Brien told his show's...
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