Lisa is the Executive Director of the Cahn Fellows Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, the organization that provides advanced professional development to K-12 Principals nationwide.

Prior to joining Teachers College, Lisa was the Chief Operating Officer at Southern Poverty Law Center, the premier civil rights organization in the United States.

Lisa worked at Covenant House, CARE and the Juvenile Welfare Board and has worked internationally in London and Guatemala. Most recently she was the CFO and COO at JWB and SPLC respectively. She has directed human services programming, finance, human resources, an administrative services organization, technology, security, facilities, administration, research and donor services.

She has been responsible for the implementation of technology systems, budgets, audits, recruitment, annual plans, compensation studies, team building, training, strategic planning, building culture, performance review systems, program development & evaluation.

She is a programmer, board member and on-air fundraising director for WPKN 89.5 FM, named best radio station for music by Connecticut Magazine. She has also worked as an adjunct professor teaching Leadership and Administrative Dynamics at Eckerd College.

Lisa hosts Afternoon Jazz (Tuesdays, 1-4 PM), a mostly Duke & Monk-ish, and Manfred Eicher’s ECM record label, and always jazz from 1900 forward.