Lisa combines her lived regional energy transition experience with her broad skillset to deliver project value for real impact. Lisa brings a background in community and regional development, project and event management, local government, service management, social research and small business ownership.
An Occupational Therapist by trade, Lisa’s career pivoted while serving as a Port Augusta City Councillor during the surprise closure of the South Australian Playford and Northern coal power stations and subsequent rise of the renewables industry. She was a key community leader for the ‘Repower Port Augusta’ campaign calling for a fair and just energy transition and a recipient of the Jill Hudson Award for Environmental Protection. Lisa recently worked with the University of Technology Sydney’s Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre on a transnational decarbonising electricity project.