Lisa has been immersed in the AAC world since the early 1990s when she met a friend who used one of the earliest AAC devices introduced in special education programs. Lisa holds both a BA and MA in English Language and Literature. She also holds a M.Ed. in Special Education from the University of Maryland. She is currently a candidate in an Executive MBA program, expecting to graduate in Fall 2025.

For more than a decade and a half, Lisa worked in a large Maryland public school system in a variety of capacities: including students with expressive language disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and physical and learning disabilities; programming instructional content for high and low technology devices; implementing a pilot for students pointing / typing to communicate in inclusive middle school classes; and co-teaching reading, math, and science.

​Lisa has experience providing training and ongoing support with a wide range of methodologies used to support students using Augmentative and Alternative Communication. She works individually with clients to develop communication skills, trains families and communication partners, and provides consultation to schools looking to implement multimodal text-based AAC in the classroom. She also applies her years of public school experience to help families understand IEPs and advocate for their children.

Most recently, Lisa has played a key role in the creation of Communication for Education, a training program for educators, homeschool teachers, and parents to learn best practices for supporting individuals using text-based multimodal AAC. In the program's first two years, the Communication for Education team trained over 330 parents, educators, SLPs, OTs, and Direct Support Professionals in the United States and more than 10 other nations.

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In 2022, Lisa was appointed to a position on Montgomery County's Commission on People with Disabilities. She serves the community as an agency representative and advocates for change to better support inclusion of disabled people in all aspects of community life.