For more than 25 years, Lisa Jackson has used her talents to help organizations turn around administrative and technical processes, or to launch from nothing. Detail-oriented and focused on constituent relationship management, she has been determined to implement processes to ensure all customers feel seen, heard, and cared for by her teams.
Lisa is a tireless community advocate, with particular emphasis on DC Public School concerns. In 2008, she co-founded an entirely new, independent organization called the John Lewis (formerly West) Parent, Staff, and Community Organization (PSCO), which she remains actively involved in. The PSCO became a 501(c)(3) charity under Lisa’s guidance and, over the last 15 years, has played a large role in the school remaining open during rounds of closures and consolidations with other schools.
Actively involved in her church, Lisa is a tireless volunteer with an eye toward applying her business skills to her charitable endeavors, believing that a service-driven life is the best life to lead. A native of Washington, DC, who comes from a large law enforcement and first-responder family, she has deep roots in community engagement. Lisa is a proud mom of two sons, a passionate baker who manages a custom cake company, Imagine Cake Studio, a coach of a Little League Tee Ball team, The Good Trouble Tigers, and a writer under the pen name L.D. Parker.
Washington, DC Native, Phillip Parker, grew up the second to youngest of nine children. Community driven from the start, he participated in Boy Scouts, ROTC, and entered the US Army, deploying to Nuremberg, Germany and then to central Vietnam as a member of the First Air Cavalry.
Upon returning home, Phil began a career in security at Children’s Hospital, then joined the Metropolitan Police Department, where he served for over 32 years, during which he earned a degree in Criminal Justice.
Upon retiring from MPDC, Phillip continued to give back to the community he loved so well, and currently serves as a full-time volunteer as Director of IT at John Lewis Elementary – a position he has held for over 15 years, which was created specifically for him after he single-handedly rebuilt the school’s defunct computer lab.