Lisa Wong Macabasco is a writer living in San Francisco. She has written for Mother Jones, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, AsianWeek, Hyphen, Audrey, Filipinas, and ColorLines' RaceWire. She has a BA in Mass Communications from UC Berkeley and a Masters from 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. Lisa is currently a speaker on NAPAWF's "Fierce Sisters Campus Speaking Tour."

A native of San Francisco's Portola district, 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, modern art and Woody Allen films.


Updated April 27, 2007