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Lisa is the founder and managing partner of Community Impact Investments, a venture philanthropy and impact-first fund that provides local leaders and social entrepreneurs with the coaching and capital necessary to scale effective community-based solutions that address economic mobility. Her diverse professional background includes work in the fields of education, workforce development, community organizing, human services, community development, and arts and culture. She is trained as an urban planner and her decades of experience nationally as a practitioner, researcher, impact evaluator, and strategist have significantly shaped her work and belief in multidimensional approaches to community building and economic well-being. In addition, she has worked throughout her career on efforts that strengthen non-profit organizations focused on social change – initiatives designed to improve planning, organizational learning, and reflection, as well as research and data utilization in order to deepen impact and effect systems change. These interests and experiences are reflected in her focus on driving capital to overlooked communities, social impact, and financing effective social solutions in ways that bring them successfully to scale.

• Lisa has a B.S. in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.