Chapter Representative
Lisa’s two
daughters, Jessica and Kristen, led Lisa and her husband, Milt, into active
involvement with AMIGOS. Jessica was an
AMIGOS Volunteer in Paraguay
in 1995 and Guanajuato, Mexico in 1996. She was a Project Supervisor in Ecuador in 1998 and Project Director in Valle, Honduras
in 2000. Kristen was a Volunteer in Tarija, Bolivia in 1999 and Intibucá,
Honduras in 2000; she served
as Project Supervisor in Santa Cruz,
Bolivia in 2002. Both Lisa and Milt have served in a variety
of positions on the Washington,
DC AMIGOS Chapter Board over the
last decade, and remain active. Lisa
served as president from 2000 to 2005. Both
Lisa and Milt went on the Amigos BOARD trip to Honduras
in 2000, and Lisa joined the Training Directors’ Trip to Oaxaca in 2003.
Lisa grew
up in Fayetteville, Arkansas;
Boulder, Colorado;
Cincinnati, Ohio;
and the Washington, DC area.
She has a BA in Psychology from Hood
College and an MPA from American University. Her career has centered around analysis of
immigration and citizenship policies and programs at the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee
Policy, and currently U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She has led strategic planning, policy and
program evaluation, and the agency’s social science research program. She is currently director of the USCIS
research and evaluation program and specializes in immigrant status and
policy. She is active in the Population
Association of America and chairs the International Migration Working Group and
has spoken on a range of immigration issues both nationally and internationally.
Before her
involvement with the DC AMIGOS Chapter Board of Directors, Lisa served on
several other boards including community theatre, the bi-lingual daycare center
both daughters attended, the before and after school program, and the high
school crew team. She and her husband,
Milt enjoy sailing, biking, astronomy and kayaking. She is active in the Washington, DC
Chapter of the World Future Society and currently co-chairs the monthly book
group. She also enjoys traveling, reading, and doing
sudoku puzzles.
