Lisa founded the Issara Institute in 2014 and serves as the Executive Director. She has worked in anti-human trafficking and human rights for over 20 years, the last 10 focused on forced labor and human trafficking in global supply chains. Lisa worked in community-based shelters while working on her Ph.D. in Biocultural Anthropology (U Washington), then in her academic work developed the world’s first quantitative predictive model of trafficking risk, based on research with Thai women and girls being trafficked into the Bangkok, Malaysian, and Japanese sex industries. After serving in the U.S. State Department, Asia Foundation, ILO, and UN, she founded Issara Institute to create a home for innovation, inclusion, and impact in anti-trafficking. The Inclusive Labor Monitoring (ILM) system and Golden Dreams smartphone app for migrant workers were built within the first five years, now positively impacting workers and survivors in the hundreds of thousands each year.