Lisa has lived her entire life in the Bay Area and is deeply connected to the land and its natural beauty, no matter how far she travels. She planned to follow her environmental passions as a career, and after experiencing Silicon Valley’s allure, she has circled back to environmental, educational, and social justice work. She is honored to serve on the Green Foothills Board to help protect open space, share the land with native species, and preserve ties to Indigenous peoples.
Currently, she is project manager of Democratic Messaging Project’s LED mobile billboard campaign, advisor to the 21st Century American Man Project, and Vice Chair of Santa Clara County’s Commission on the Status of Women. As former Vice Chair of Santa Clara County’s CEDAW Task Force, she was instrumental in helping the County to approve the CEDAW (Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women) Ordinance in spring 2023. She is a current Advisory Board Member of GENup and was former Director/Board Member of March On/Future Coalition for six years. In education, she dedicated over 10 years to leadership including Co-Chair & Chair Advisory roles with Common Ground Speaker Series, a 30-school parent-education consortium. In the 1990’s, she also co-founded Neighbors for Responsible Logging (in the Santa Cruz Mountains) whereby she lobbied with San Francisco Bay Area county supervisors across five counties on environmental policies.
Prior to her political work and community service, she was Vice President of Business Development at a tech startup, and spent 17 years prior in Silicon Valley negotiating strategic OEM and licensing partnerships and selling technology solutions to both consumer and corporate marketplaces.