She received her honours BA in Psychology from Simon Fraser University, followed by an MA and PhD specializing in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Austin. Her current research interests fall in three main areas: the interactions between hormones and sexual function (includes work on stress and sexual function and prostate cancer treatments and sexual function), monogamy/nonmonogamy, and sex-positive sex education. Lisa Dawn has been a member of CSRF since she moved back to Canada in 2010.