Lisa has a Bachelor’s degree in Communicative Disorders, a Master’s degree in Special Education in 2002 (emphasis in deaf and hard of hearing) and an Education Specialist Credential in 2003 (emphasis in deaf and hard of hearing) at San Francisco State University. In 2004, she began providing services as an itinerant teacher on the staff of the Auditory-Oral School serving elementary school children through grade 12. In 2004 she began teaching the Pre-Kindergarten auditory-oral classroom and then moved to the Kindergarten-2nd grade auditory-oral classroom where she taught until 2010. In 2010 she changed classes to teach Pre-K through 1st grade where she currently teaches. Her family has a long history of profound hearing loss and she wants to help people with hearing loss be successful and happy communicators.