Lisa Wise is the executive director of the Center for a New American Dream, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. that promotes sustainable consumer choices. For over a decade, she has used both traditional community-based outreach and cutting-edge social networking techniques to galvanize participation in political and social movements.

In addition to her work on health and environmental issues, Wise is co-founder of Pan Left Productions, a not-for-profit media company in Tucson, Arizona designed to give members of the community access to media-making technology. She is a participant of the WMC’s Progressive Women’s Voices program and was featured on Forbes.com as one of the country’s “leading environmentalists” on the subject of what ordinary people can do to help save the environment.