Elizabeth Schultz Ayers, executive director of gift planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, served on the national board of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners from 2015-17, chaired the national conference in 2017, and presented at the 2018 national conference. Active in charitable presentations at the national and state level, she was the keynote speaker for the Crescendo Practical Planned Giving Conference in September 2018.