Lisa has worked as a visual storyteller and educator on every continent. Her love of science collided with storytelling while studying English Literature and Photojournalism at Boston University, where she also worked as an assistant teacher. She spent a semester abroad at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, where she volunteered for the Kayamandi Project, tutoring primary school students, and for Cheetah Outreach, educating visitors about cheetah conservation. Since 2004, she has worked as a visual journalist and filmmaker for newspapers, magazines, and wire services globally, focusing her work on women’s empowerment, conservation, and the climate crisis. Her award-winning photos have been published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Time, USA Today, Le Figaro, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Diego Union Tribune, The Cambodia Daily, and many other publications. In 2017, she began to shift her focus toward documentary film, and in 2019, received her Master of Journalism degree in documentary filmmaking from UC Berkeley, where she produced an intimate and provocative documentary titled The Loving of Caridad, about sex-trafficking and domestic abuse told through the eyes of one survivor. Her short film Losing Ground, about climate change in the Indian Sundarbans, was featured by The Atlantic in 2019. She founded Film Farm Productions in 2021 and is currently directing her first documentary feature film, titled Forty One, about the first female Marines to train at a military base in San Diego that had been all-male for 100 years. Lisa loves working with young people and has taught photojournalism and filmmaking workshops for Putney Student Travel, National Geographic Student Expeditions, New York Times Student Journeys, and Smithsonian Student Travel for the past 15 years, taking students to Costa Rica, Tanzania, Maine, Alaska, India, the Czech Republic, Fiji, Bali, Scotland, the Canadian Arctic, New Zealand, Cambodia, Croatia, Iceland, and Bhutan. She now runs her own organization called Film Farm Collective where she mentors women in visual storytelling and the creative process. She also teaches photography for National Geographic aboard the Lindblad Expeditions fleet where she has worked in some of the most remote regions of the world including Antarctica. Lisa is a certified yoga instructor and an avid surfer, snowboarder, and rock climber. In her free time, you can find her hiking the trails of Southern California with her 13-year-old rescue pup, Bear.