 Lissa
was born in 1988 near the small town of Green River in
Wyoming. At the age of 12, she moved to Georgetown, Texas,
another small town just north of Austin. Here, she went to
Forbes Middle School and Georgetown High School. Forbes
Middle School was a new school and Lissa was part of the
first graduating class. For her senior year in High School,
she moved to Fresno (really Clovis, another small town),
California, where she attended Buchanan High School. In all
three places she met the best of people that helped shape
her life. Fairly quickly, everyone knew that Lissa loved to
sing. There was only one rule her mama taught her from the
moment Lissa could speak; she could sing anywhere she wanted
- in the store, in the car, at church, anywhere she wanted -
but she had to sing in key. Quiet, smart, and demure, Lissa
made a mark in all three hometowns. She was voted Student of
the Year in the Select Womens Choir at Georgetown High
School where her choir directors took them to several
championships, and her choir at Buchanan High School also
took several awards including Best Overall Performance at
the western U.S. competition held in Disneyland, California.
During her sophomore year at Georgetown High School, she
sang the United States National Anthem for the Round Rock
Express at the Dell Diamond Stadium in front of 9,000
people. In California, she went on to make All-State Choir.
But it didnt stop there, she was selected after a
rigorous screening process to become one of 120 members to
be part of the prestigious United States Honor Chorus, THE
SOUND OF AMERICA, which toured in Europe during the summer
of 2006, (the summer before she started college at the
University of California, Davis). At the age of 17, she
recorded her first musical CD. Lissa has grown up to value
her faith and human life, and strives to help others. This
is the part you wont believe, while completing all this
singing, the following are just some of the other things she
also accomplished.
- Summer Institute for the Gifted, Vassar College, New
York
- Summer Institute for Gifted Girls ("Tech
Trek" sponsored by the American Association of
University Women), Stanford University, CA
- Georgetown Youth Advisory Board (over 200 hours of
Community Service)
- University Medical Trauma Center (over 40 hours of
volunteer service)
- National Honor Society, National Honor Roll,
California Scholarship Federation
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