Lisa Jones

What do you do if you grew up in Brooklyn, attended Stuyvesant HS, the most exclusive and inclusive science magnet in Manhattan, graduated from Wharton, had a career in marketing, including a stint as an analyst at Essence and Latina magazines, but didn’t see the diversity in your life represented on TV? If you’re a creative and analytical, funny and fearless storyteller like Lisa who believes she can change the world, you choose words over numbers, start writing screenplays and move to LA to pursue that dream. Talent and good samples got her quickly signed with Paradigm, but after not getting staffed, she found herself “representation free.” Undeterred, she continued perfecting her craft taking classes at UCLA, participating in the Cosby Fellowship at USC, and placing in several network competitions. Along the way she discovered an affinity for anthropomorphic storytelling and added feature and preschool animation to her slate of television scripts. Lisa is a woman on a mission: “to magnify our similarities and our differences and through humor and not hatred.”