Lisa Wong Macabasco is a writer and editor living in San Francisco. She has written for Mother Jones, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, AsianWeek, Hyphen, Audrey, Filipinas, and ColorLines' RaceWire. She graduated from UC Berkeley and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Lisa co-founded the National Asian American Student Conference (NAASCon) with a group of friends in 2000. In her spare time, she is involved with organizations like the Asian American arts group Kearny Street Workshop; San Francisco Women Against Rape; and Pilipino American arts group Bindlestiff Studio. She is a member of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and the Asian American Journalists Association.

A San Francisco native, Lisa's interests include women of color organizing and feminism, multiracial activist groups, reproductive rights, recent and established immigrant communities, global Asian diaspora, HIV/AIDS in marginalized communities and subversive DIY media. For kicks, she enjoys audiobooks, running and Woody Allen films.