Work.

With over twenty years of experience in media and communications and policy initiatives, Lise has worked to create solutions and strategies on a number of issues, most notably public health, environmental protection, human rights, education, mental health, tribal sovereignty, voting rights, economic development, and better access to opportunities.

SELECT POLICY INITIATIVES

and those whom Lise has worked with directly.

• Great Plains Wind Energy Consortium – Senator Tom Daschle

• Healthy meals for US schools (eatupfilm.com) – Jill Shah, entrepreneur, Congressman Joe Kennedy

• Elderly Care Centers – Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association in coordination with Senator Tim Johnson

• Opioid Crisis Response – Governor Charlie Baker, MA Senator Dan Wolf, Senator Ed Markey, Congressman Richard Neal, MA Attorney General Maura Healey, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, White House ONDCP Director Michael Botticelli

• World AIDS Day 2018, US Capitol –Congressman Richard Neal, Congresswoman Katherine Clark, Congressman Joe Kennedy

• Mental Healthcare for Veterans - Congressman Seth Moulton

• Created and organized roundtable policy discussion with (then) newly-elected SD Senator John Thune, SD Governor Mike Rounds, and chairmen and women of all nine of South Dakota’s Indian tribes.

• Served Native America as policy advocate to US Congress and state governments on a number of initiatives including health care, education, voting rights, gaming and sovereignty.

• Created and implemented GOTV campaign targeting Indian country, South Dakota 2002, and nationwide in 2004, which included development, production, and distribution of 155,000 GOTV Native Voice newspapers – with non-partisan national GOTV organization National Voice (Alyssa Macy, coordinator), and the Democratic National Committee.

Lise’s expertise is the crafting of solutions and media for impact in education, policy, and social change. Lise has served many roles including policy maker, administrator, consultant, producer, director, publisher, writer, filmmaker and photographer.

After many years working to affect positive social change through public policy and media, Lise went back to university to earn her Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School in 2011 and then served three years as a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (2011-14), where her work focused on indigenous rights and media for social change. Her post-graduate work included studies in social entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and a year of documentary film (sensory ethnography) at Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies (VES).

In 2014 Lise re-entered the workforce as co-producer and second camera on HBO Documentary Films’ Heroin: Cape Cod, USA. She worked one-on-one with Oscar-winning director Steven Okazaki from proof-of-concept in June, 2014 to completion in Dec. 2015, and then proposed and led the film’s impact campaign. She brought the film to Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and he then hosted the world premiere in Boston with an audience of state legislators and government officials.

Baker credited the film and screening with helping him pass landmark, multi-agency legislation to address the opioid crisis.

Lise then brought the film to Capitol Hill, sponsored and presented by President Obama’s White House Office of National Drug Control Policy “Drug Czar” Michael Botticelli, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), US Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), and Congressman Richard Neal (D-MA).

The film premiered in December 2015 on HBO and was the most-watched documentary on the network worldwide in 2016.

Lise went on to consult the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office, the U.S. Center for Disease Control, and MA Attorney General Maura Healey’s multi-agency team on the opioid crisis.

Since HEROIN: Cape Cod, USA, Lise has worked on three additional HBO Documentary films on public and mental health, and for select independent filmmakers as Social Impact Consultant and Producer. She has been a speaker on film for social impact at the Tribeca Film Festival, DOC NYC, Harvard Business School Entertainment and Media Conference, Massachusetts Production Coalition, The PFS Womens’ Media Summit, Suffolk Law School, and Emerson College.

Early in her career, Lise worked for major media and corporate clients with a focus on environmental issues and social justice. After completing work on MTV’s first major documentary project, DECADE, which won a Peabody Award (1990), she initiated and co-produced a short series of environmental action pieces for MTV News.

At the age of 27, Lise relocated to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota and her focus shifted to indigenous rights, community education, and grass roots economic development. She transitioned into independent media and co-founded and directed Native Voice Media, The Native Voice Native American newspaper (the largest distribution Native newspaper in the U.S., 2001-2008), and The Native Voice Film Festival. She served as traveling press on the Obama 2008 presidential campaign, and covered tribal events at The White House during the Obama Administration. 

Lise has worked on impact projects for a number of non-profit organizations, tribes, governments and businesses, including Women Empowered Afghanistan (Board Member, 2014-16), the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, South Dakota Alliance for the Mentally Ill’s Native American Advocacy Project, Body Glove International Earth Day campaign, Friends of Animals International anti-poaching campaign, Ralph Lauren Vintage (Melet Mercantile), Houghton Mifflin Publishing, the Grameen Foundation, Sociodade Culturale Arte Brasil, Pacific Ocean Post, the National Indian Gaming Association, the Bureau of Indian Education, US Department of Interior, PBS, and the National Congress of American Indians.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Lise co-founded the Provincetown Covid-19 Task Force https://www.facebook.com/ptowntaskforce and is a founding board member of the Provincetown Public Art Foundation http://www.provincetownpublicart.org.

SOCIAL IMPACT PRODUCTION

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2749450/

Strategist and producer for documentary film impact campaigns to spark positive social change and influence public opinion and policy. Campaigns include evaluative research, strategy development, production of impact and educational curriculum materials, building networks, and producing outreach campaign events and screenings with policymakers, researchers, educators, and community/NGO partners.

IMPACT PRODUCER for Select Independent Films

EAT UP (2019)  www.eatupfilm.com

HILLBILLY (2018) www.hillbillymovie.com

LONG TIME COMING: A 1955 Baseball Story (2018) www.longtimecoming.film

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE (2015)  http://www.thankyouforyourservicethefilm.com/

IMPACT PRODUCER for HBO Documentary Films:

32 PILLS: My Sister’s Suicide (2017)  www.hbo.com/documentaries/32-pills-my-sisters-suicide

WARNING: This Drug May Kill You (2017)  www.hbo.com/documentaries/warning-this-drug-may-kill-you

RISKY DRINKING (2016)  www.hbo.com/documentaries/risky-drinking

HEROIN: Cape Cod, USA (2015)  www.hbo.com/documentaries/heroin-cape-cod-usa

PRODUCTION

Producer

Second Camera

ENTANGLED: The Race to Save the Right Whale From Extinction (2020) https://entangled-film.com/

Director/Producer David Abel'; A Pulitzer Center and Boston Globe Film.

A feature-length documentary film about the race to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction. There are an estimated 400 remaining — less than a quarter of them breeding females — making the whales among the planet’s most endangered species. The main threats to their survival are climate change, which has sparked a collapse in their food supply in the warming waters of the Gulf of Maine and led them to search for food in areas where they are not adequately protected, and entanglement in fishing lines – of which there are three million lobster lines alone in the waters from New England to Atlantic Canada.

Co-Producer

HEROIN: CAPE COD, USA

HBO Documentary Films

Worked from proof-of-concept to broadcast (18 months) to produce feature documentary film. Included research, identifying and retaining subjects, camera, sound, expert interviews, and stock footage research/acquisitions. Film commissioned by Sheila Nevins, Directed by Steven Okazaki. http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/heroin-cape-cod-usa

Nominated for 2017 Cinema Eye Honor: Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Film made for Television http://cinemaeyehonors.com/archives/press/cinema-eye-honors-announces-nominees-for-10th-annual-awards

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2016/03/21/film-festival-opens-hard-subject-hits-close-home-heroin

http://capecod.wickedlocal.com/article/20160601/NEWS/160609896

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/more_education_funding_and_tre.html

Impact Strategist, Writer

US BUREAU OF INDIAN EDUCATION, US DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

Provided media and communications consultation for Safe Schools Initiative for the network of Bureau of Indian Affairs DOI schools. Wrote primer on history of Indian education for distribution to all incoming BIE teachers.

Publisher, Editor

NATIVE VOICE MEDIA, INC    liseking.wordpress.com     Native American Journalists Association multiple awards                                   

Created social entrepreneurship startup to publish bi-weekly national independent Native American newspaper, THE NATIVE VOICE, (2001–2009). Wrote business plan, raised capital, convened startup team and executed production goals. Directed national advertising/marketing campaigns for tribal governments, federal government, non-profits, and private sector clients. Produced documentaries, a public television talk show, and public service announcements. Co-founded and directed The Native Voice Film Festival, the first national film festival hosted in Indian Country. Featured in National Geographic Magazine, September 2004. Created Youth in Media Forum to empower and train reservation and urban, native and non-Indian youth, and we served over 3000 students in four years. Traveling press corps: John Kerry presidential campaign 2004, Barack Obama presidential campaign 2008. The Native Voice is best known nationally for its groundbreaking Native GOTV work.

Producer, Educator

MODEL PROJECT FOR PERINATAL CARE, Great Lakes Intertribal Council                   

Developed, wrote, produced, and presented community health education programs. Created a unique program for each age group, from Head Start to Elderly. Developed and directed first tribal Youth Conference for Health.

Project Manager, Film/Media Producer

NATIVE AMERICAN ADVOCACY PROJECT, South Dakota Alliance for the Mentally Ill (SDAMI)             

Wrote, produced and directed extensive media campaign for print, radio, and television in coordination with SD Public Broadcasting including Ti Ekiye, a documentary feature film on Native Americans and mental health.

Producer/Writer, Director of Film Research, Rights and Clearances

COLUMBUS: ENCOUNTER, DISCOVERY & BEYOND | IBM Knowledge Systems multi-media educational product   

Creative team member (12 months), producer/writer, director of film and video research, acquisitions, rights and clearances.

MTV News and Specials           

–     Associate Producer, Research: DECADE documentary film: George Foster Peabody Award, Emmy Award          

–    Appointed  to MTV Network’s Pro-Social Campaign, an in-house forum on positive media impact.

–    Developed, wrote and produced short series of MTV News environmental news packages. Tuna Fishing on Dolphins segment credited with raising public support for a Congressional bill to ban the practice (HR 5419).

EDUCATION

 HARVARD UNIVERSITY, John F. Kennedy School of Government: Master in Public Administration, 2011

Visual & Environmental Studies,  Documentary Film Program

Sr. Editor, US Domestic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Review; Research Associate, Advanced Leadership Initiative; Delegate, The Women in Public Service Project, US Department of State; Selected Participant: From Harvard Square to the Oval Office, Women in Public Policy Program; Selected Participant: Inclusive Security – A Curriculum for Women Waging Peace.

Fellow, CARR CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY, HKS   2011 – 2014

Established the Program on Indigenous Rights with Carr Center Executive Director, Charlie Clements. Served as a Member of the Violence Against Women Expert Technical Working Group on gaps in international legal frameworks.

MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (‘86) Bachelor of Arts: History. Concentration: US Social and Political History.