Lisa-Helene Lawson

Lisa-Helene Lawson was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She grew up loving reading and newspapers. At an early age, she often tagged along with her dad, Baseball Hall of Fame Sportswriter, Earl Lawson, as he wrote a daily column for the Cincinnati Post and Time Star. She studied at Northwestern, lived and worked in the Middle East for 12 years and spent 3 decades in LA and Sacramento working in government before heading to Alexandria in 2017. Her opeds on several public policy issues have appeared in several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Baltimore Sun . She is a Certified Master Gardener, a Friends of Duncan Library Board Member, and has tutored for several years first graders for the Alexandria Tutoring Consortium.