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Lisa joined the Foundation in 2007 as an associate program officer in the Conservation and Science Program. Her work supports objectives of the Marine Fisheries subprogram, which are to conserve and restore marine fish populations and their ecosystems, and to establish a sustainable relationship between those ecosystems and the people who use them.
In 2006, Lisa was invited to become the Foundation's first Conservation and Science Fellow, a partnership program with the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. In this role, Lisa led cross-cutting initiatives among current programs and developed recommendations for potential areas of deepening or expansion. She focused research on opportunities for improved management of tuna in the Western Pacific region, supply chain issues in the fishing industry, and investment strategies to promote sustainable aquaculture. In 2005, Lisa produced a report for the Foundations Conservation and Science Program on innovation diffusion within conservation, including recommendations for program portfolio investment within science.
Lisa brings several years of experience in strategy, organizational development and performance management, capacity-building, fundraising, and in-depth research from both the corporate and nonprofit sectors through her work with Borders Group, Inc., Deloitte Consulting, Goldman Sachs, and The Nature Conservancy. She has developed and led teams, designed various stakeholder partnerships, and coached and mentored staff. Earlier in her career, Lisa conducted research for the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank in Washington, D.C., to evaluate indigenous relocation programs and identify global mechanisms for carbon sequestration. Much of her conservation experience has been focused in Latin America and Mexico, in particular.
Lisa graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in international relations and attended graduate school at University of Michigan's Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, a dual MBA/MS program. | 