https://www.lisafororegon.com/getinvolved daily 0.75 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da89d39664390593cf2c323/1649644222871-HO2K2TX6AO0EA7Y0PP0L/IMG-3128.JPG Get Involved - I am very proud of our campaigns and am grateful for the 100 (or so) volunteers who have helped! Photo: Lisa canvassing with friends and colleagues, April 2022. https://www.lisafororegon.com/about daily 0.75 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da89d39664390593cf2c323/1576368861054-9DDTNODK995M07N6EGW2/Charlie%2C+Phyllis%2C+Pat%2C+Lisa%2C+Sarah%2C+Chris.jpg About - The Example That Shaped My Life I was raised in suburban Chicago in the 1970s in a working-class family, the daughter of a roofer and a housewife. My mom, Phyllis, was a maverick. She took me to Equal Rights Amendment marches, subscribed to Ms. Magazine, and brought us to nearby migrant farmworker camps to drop off blankets and clothes. Even though she didn’t have her degree, my mom talked about college for all of us. And then she returned to school, graduating from college at the age of 40. Mom taught us kids to live a life of action and of service. If you needed an education, you got it. If you wanted your rights, you fought for them. If someone needed help, you gave it to them. She inspires me still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da89d39664390593cf2c323/1635132949439-NC3KXUDDDTXWHUGO853U/pat+point.jpeg About - “Everything’s fine.” My brother Pat, at 22, had a psychotic breakdown and was hospitalized when I was in college. We learned, over time, that he suffers from schizophrenia. We all hoped he would be OK, that he’d feel better and go back to college and play guitar again and have a family. Instead, Pat, like many people with mental illness, has struggled. Sometimes he might disappear or stop taking his medication and wind up in the hospital. We still start our voicemail messages with a sing-song “everything’s fine” because we’ve had so many calls when things are not fine. When Pat needed help – a suicide attempt, an appointment with a doctor, a call from a nursing home – we gave it to him. I want to make sure everyone with mental illness, or any illness, has the kind of care that Pat gets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da89d39664390593cf2c323/1576369999986-R9K61OIHXQ1QI7VXQBCH/DSC_0550.jpg About - That Was a Good Day When I was in medical school in Los Angeles, a group of us medical students saw the need for health care among the homeless. We started a clinic in a transitional housing shelter. One day at the clinic, Mrs. Gonzales came to me and said: “Lisa, I’ve lost my glasses and I can’t read my Bible. Will you help me?” I walked right into the famous Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA and persuaded them to provide free eye exams and glasses to shelter residents. That was a good day. When I was studying medicine, I wanted to learn Spanish to better take care of my patients. So I took a crash language course in Guatemala and a clinical rotation in Nicaragua. I’m glad I did. Today, I speak Spanish with about 20 percent of my patients. https://www.lisafororegon.com/home daily 1.0 2025-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da89d39664390593cf2c323/e1479cb9-e5e4-40a1-9532-c7125b3073e0/LHP_0750.jpg Home - Lisa is a state senator. Lisa uses her voice in Salem to help make Oregon the best and most equitable state in the country in which to grow up. As Chair of the Senate Committee on Early Childhood and Behavioral Health, Lisa is working to reduce child poverty, improve outcomes for families, end gun violence, and improve access to health care, especially behavioral health services. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da89d39664390593cf2c323/1648527176508-9SJWJ8SSZNURE6HQA9EF/DSC_0712%252B%2525281%252529.jpg Home Lisa is a physician. Lisa has been a pediatrician in Washington County for over 20 years and knows what is and what is not working for families. She ran for office so that she could do even more for children than what she could accomplish in the exam room. Lisa continues to see patients (many of whom she has known since they were born) several days a week when the Oregon Legislature is not in session. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5da89d39664390593cf2c323/594bea58-6a26-413b-a4c5-f3fbd5edb347/IMG-2696+%281%29.jpg Home - Lisa is a mom. Lisa has two sons, born and raised in Oregon. https://www.lisafororegon.com/priorities daily 0.75 2023-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Priorities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Priorities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Priorities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847743861-GWVMBPD7Z7WQRQL9IZZ8/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0380.jpg Priorities https://www.lisafororegon.com/endorsements daily 0.75 2026-04-03