About LIsa
She loves books, words, images, nature, culture, stories and traveling. Lisa has visited, written, filmed and photographed in all seven continents. She has also written for an Academy Award winning-documentary, an Emmy-winning TV series, and numerous websites and magazines (including National Geographic for Kids and Time for Kids.)
In the book arena: She wrote "STARDUST JOURNEY," an essay that accompanied Random House's premium edition of Madeleine L'Engles' WRINKLE IN TIME. Her book EVERYTHING 101 is due out this summer, via Fallen Leaf, Sterling Innovations and her MORSE CODE: Destiny, Dots and Dashes booklet and kit are due out in 2012.
She currently has both nonfiction and fiction projects underway for children and young adults. She would love to work with creative editors and publishers.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
EDUCATION:
Lisa cares about education and has produced/written science series for students in elementary school, middle school and high school as well as run a K-12 Charitable Literacy program in the United States to help youth connect to causes and solutions. She was VP for Education for Space.com and launched an award-winning educational website for children. She has a Masters in Communication from Stanford University, produced a PBS hour program on children and creativity, has conducted teacher workshops and visited classrooms throughout the country.
EXPLORATION:
Lisa is a member of the Explorers Club and has floated weightless with astronauts and cosmonauts on a LIFE magazine assignment as well as become the first woman to "fly underwater" in a winged submersible for a piece for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC television. She also has enjoyed cave exploration on land and in the sea. Her underwater scuba includes dives in the Galapagos, the Channel Islands, Sea of Cortes, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, and the Indian Ocean off Kenya.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Images she has created have graced books, websites, album covers, television shows, and posters.
THE ARTS:
Lisa has produced classical and jazz albums, company managed Broadway musicals and dramas, and helped run Stanford's performing arts series. She has also written about/produced television about literature, dance, music, sculpture, and painting. She has also worked on Hollywood movies and Independent films.
Lisa is trained as a journalist, but also has an active imagination and was one of the first people to receive the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship.
One of her aims is to bring back the word: possibilitating which means "to render possible." Her husband coined a noun from it, "Possibilitator," on their first date. They have enjoyed getting married (to each other) in Japan, Romania and Antarctica.
She loves books, words, images, nature, culture, stories and traveling. Lisa has visited, written, filmed and photographed in all seven continents. She has also written for an Academy Award winning-documentary, an Emmy-winning TV series, and numerous websites and magazines (including National Geographic for Kids and Time for Kids.)
In the book arena: She wrote "STARDUST JOURNEY," an essay that a...
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Welcome Lisa my granddaughter loves her national Geogrpahic for Kids. Sharon