about

Lisa (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary artist, teacher, and student of Nature currently living in New York’s Hudson Valley. She originally hails from Georgia (the traditional, unceded land of the Muscogee Nation), where she grew up in small towns across the state. Her work explores the intersection of the arts and Nature, and she takes particular interest in the connection we have to the other-than-human world as well as the interconnectedness of communities around the world. 

Lisa is the founder of Earth Stories Initiative, a platform that uses storytelling, education, and advocacy to connect young children living in cities to the natural world. She was an artist-in-residence with The Arctic Circle Residency in the international territory of Svalbard, Norway in April 2022. She was a 2018 recipient of the Voices of the Wilderness Artist Residency through the USDA Forest Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska.

Lisa is currently an ensemble member with Spellbound Theatre and teaches with Little Leaf School in the Hudson Valley. She has taught with Brooklyn Forest School and Brooklyn Wild as a nature-based educator and has taught with countless artistic organizations as a teaching artist in NYC. Lisa received her Nature-Based Education Teacher Certification from the Association of Nature-Based Education and completed CUNY SPS’s Childhood Development Associate program in partnership with the New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute. She holds an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater and a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Evansville.