Currently, Lisa serves as President of the National Peace Academy; works on the Advisory Council for the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence, where she is also a mentor to teaching artists pursuing their certification in Kingian Nonviolence, a trainer for the UnGUN Institute: Collective Trauma Healing Through the Arts, an adjunct professor in Sociology at Western Connecticut State University, and the former Academic Director for MA program in Writing and Oral Traditions. Lisa designed, implemented, and served as Academic Director for Connecticut's first accredited MA program in Peace and Conflict Transformation, and was a member of the international Launch Team for the Global Sustainability Fellows program. A consultant and trainer, Lisa works with a variety of dialogue and peacebuilding practices from Bohmian Dialogue to Kingian Nonviolence. She is a participatory action researcher with a focus on empathy development, one of the essential skills for creating a compassionate global society. 

In addition, Lisa has been a teaching artist for several decades, working in universities, K-12 classrooms, homeless shelters, and safe houses, and is the first recipient of the Frank McCourt Prize for Excellence in Teaching.  Along with designing and implementing nonviolent and peacebuilding programs, Lisa incorporates the arts as a means to elevate voices, address injustice, heal trauma and PTSD, nurture compassion, and imagine new futures. Lisa blends story in its myriad forms with peace, humanitarian, social justice, and environmental concerns, and nurtures the development of creative activism and ecological stewardship.