• University of California, San Diego, Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science, focus on Human-Computer Interaction, San Diego, CA, 2018

Lisa is a User Experience Researcher who is passionate about social impact work and immersing herself into new worlds and experiences. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative research, she uncovers customer insights, needs, and motivations to make our clients’ products and services more intuitive and enjoyable. With a cognitive science background, she brings an interdisciplinary approach and explores problems from multiple perspectives and scales.

Lisa has always been drawn to understanding people. Through her course work, she discovered that people’s lives can be improved by conducting user experience research and applying that to real life situations such as designing a website or the offering of a service. When you know what the customer wants, the solution becomes easier to design.

From her involvement in healthcare and tech, she learned that human-centered research can serve to benefit any industry, especially the social impact space. Now at Anthro-Tech, she is committed to ensuring that customers are heard in any government agency, nonprofit, and social impact enterprise – and that their designed solutions reflect that. Outside of work, you can find Lisa experimenting with baking recipes, going thrift shopping, zoning out to an album, or hanging out with her cat. She recently has been trying out journaling, and as a result, has become a bit of a paper scrap collector.

Path that led you to UX

I was lucky to first be exposed through my major in college and try it out during my elective courses.

Cause that means the most to you

Urban equity and sustainability

Favorite movie/TV show/podcast

Favorite show, probably Psych. I really like the Ologies podcast, and Hello from the Magic Tavern for something fiction.

Strength Finder Top 5 Themes

• Achiever
• Restorative
• Adaptability
• Intellection
• Learner

Alternative universe career(s)

Something mixing science and art, like art conservation or scientific illustration