I am a student of slow, incremental processes: reading thick books, cycling long distances, hiking tall peaks. Steel-cut oats. Home-brewed ale. The serenity prayer. And so I love working for an organization that recognizes our mission is not about individual balance sheets and budgets, but rather how small acts of lending, partnering, and educating add up to create big, systemic changes in the nonprofit sector. As a communicator, I’m often sharing the epilogue of a story, the view from the top of the mountain. There’s only room for so much detail in the retelling, and it’s my goal to do the story – and its protagonists – justice as they work to build a more just and equitable world.
Bio: Chris Lisée (pronounced lee-ZAY, he/him/his) leads video and audio production projects; writes and edits stories about NFF’s work, its people, and its clients; oversees the identity style guide for equitable writing; and creates tools, processes, and communications to make work smoother. He was a member of the inaugural Social Innovation and Equity Council. Before coming to NFF, Chris worked in journalism, higher education, nonprofit legal services, and the United Nations. Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism and English from Ithaca College and a Master of Theological Studies in religion, ethics, and politics from Harvard Divinity School. After years of personal struggle, he finally embraces his New Jersey roots and the Oxford comma.
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