About Lisa Marie

Lisa Marie is a writer and performer working across genre (playwriting, poetry, the novel), and multidisciplinary theater producer living in the Bay Area of California. She likes most everyone she meets, loves music, and has recently realized that no matter how hard she resists - she is one of many poster children for TRA’s. (Transracial adoptees) Yikes.

Lisa Marie is the Founder /Director of AFAAD (Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora). She is the Adoption Education Specialist for Pact, An Adoption Alliance in Oakland, CA.

Other “thangs” she is: academic, scholar, Adult Adoptee activist, feminist, teacher, lover, sister, daughter and friend.

Lisa Marie is PhD Candidate in African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley where her work focuses on Diasporic Black women’s bodies, the impact of industrial and digital technologies on these bodies and how this impact reveals ways of negotiating alternative subjectivities. She currently welcomes contact from readers and any advice on how to finish her dissertation (yikes again) or win the lotto.

Lisa Marie has been featured on NPR, KPFA Berkeley (3 times), KPFK Los Angeles, and has been an invited panelist for a multitude of topics around race and adoption, multicultural identitfication and the politics of international and domestic adoption. She writes regularly for Anti-Racist Parent.

Lisa Marie is available for interviews, speaking engagements and performances. For more information about her educational workshops - go to this page.

Lisa Marie on Myspace - Extended Bio and Information about upcoming performances.