Lisa was brought to Ojai by
the Ojai Valley Inn in early summer 1999. She was recruited from the
Four Seasons San Diego for a junior executive position at the
Inn where she served until
early 2003. After a
total of 15 years in hotel management, she intrepidly jumped off the
glamorous roller coaster of celebrity, champagne, and Egyptian
cotton linens in 2003. Looking for an opportunity to
learn something new, do something more meaningful, and work less
than 70 hours a week, she took a job in the public
sector.
Lisa
grew up in the rural backcountry of
San
Diego
County where her keen
appreciation for small town life and a passion for writing were
first nurtured. So it
was only natural that it was love at first sight when she came to
Ojai. The quirkiness of
the town and the eccentricities of the hotel business have given her
much fodder for writing. Lisa has a passion for
writing, particularly in a local format, and has found her voice in
self-deprecating humor. Her publishing successes include
several local print media, a national writing
award, assignments with Santa Barbara Wine and Dine
magazine, the Sierra Club’s local paper, the VC Reporter, 805
Living and a quarterly column in Ojai. One of her
most rewarding projects, writing, producing and directing the
documentary, The Price of Paradise, yielded her first foray
into filmmaking. Lisa
has also written two plays, Millennium Dreams, a comedy,
and Wind River
Redemption, a drama.
Lisa
holds a Bachelor of Science from
Cal
Poly
University,
Pomona. She volunteers from time to
time for local non-profit special events. She and her husband, Bill,
enjoy dinner with friends, vacations abroad and playing fetch with
their rescued teenage Labradork, Toby.
Listen to one of Lisa’s
local podcasts on Radio Ojai, where she hosts music and talk of
the Central
Coast.
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