Lisa L. Cagle is a cross-sector innovator with over a decade of non-profit experience in the St. Louis region. She is an enthusiastic and strategic systems-thinker, who brings together expertise in research and policy analysis, public health and the built environment, community education, and sustainable development to reframe problems and offer innovative and cost-effective solutions for clients and the larger St. Louis community. 

Lisa’s curiosity-driven approach to life has gained her a wide range of experiences in fields from sustainable development to government relations and strategic partnerships. She has an M.A. in Philosophy from UMSL, and has conducted research toward her Ph.D. in Social Political Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, with a focus on local governmental policy, the built environment, and social epistemology. Lisa serves as Board President for Assisi House, a St. Louis non-profit whose mission is to provide housing for unhoused or housing insecure individuals in small, communal settings where each person is treated with dignity and respect. She also serves as Past-President of the Board for local sustainability focused non-profit earthday365.