An Indigenous daughter of Guahan (Guam) she is a leading voice against the United States’s militarization of her island and an advocate for the exercise of her people’s (Indigenous CHamorus) right to selfdetermination and political decolonization. She joined the 2015 Women Cross DMZ and organized a global women’s demilitarization conference on Guahan in 2009 (with International Network of Women Against Militarism). Lisa has advocated for the Guam Commission on Decolonization before multiple high-level UN committees.