Previously based in London, England, and Vancouver, Canada, Lisa is a Vienna-born designer and educator, whose research and work focuses on self-organized art education, youth engagement in art and social practice, spatial interventions, participatory pedagogies, and creative dissent. From 2015 to 2018, she taught across foundation, design studios, and critical studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and was a core faculty of Simon Fraser University’s experimental Semester in Dialogue at CityStudio Vancouver (Fall 2017). She has led workshops, youth arts intensives, and numerous experiments in public pedagogies with institutions including the Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver, the Vancouver School Board, UNIT PITT Projects, the School for Eventual Vacancy, the City of Vancouver, Temporary Investments, the University of Georgia, and communities across Canada and the United States.

She currently is a doctoral student in art education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, Georgia, and was appointed Co-Chair for K-12 Educational Programming at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in early 2020.