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Freelance Writer
findingojai@aol.com

Lisa has been an Ojai Post author since its inception.

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 to learn something new, do something more meaningful, and work less than 70 hours a week. She now works in the government sector (but that's another story).

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, regular assignments with Santa Barbara Wine and Dine magazine, the Sierra Club’s local paper, the VC Reporter, the Ojai Valley News Blog and a quarterly column in the Ojai Visitors Guide. Her latest project, writing, producing and directing the documentary, The Price of Paradise, yielded her first foray into filmmaking, and two of her plays have been read at Theater 150.

Lisa is host of Radio Ojai, which features music and talk of the Central Coast.

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 vacations abroad, dinner with friends and playing fetch with their teenage Labradork, Toby.  A Web site featuring her writing is at www.FindingOjai.com.

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