Welcome!

Welcome to the blog for presence*, a non-profit organization dedicated to cancer awareness, and making music more accessible to those with loved ones facing cancer.

My name is Lisa, and I am the founder of presence*.  I am a professional musician (horn player!), horn teacher, and doctoral student at Kent State University in higher education administration.  I studied music as an undergraduate and Master's student, and also attended law school, where I first became interested in the legal rights of Americans as set forth in the American Disabilities Act.  Given the number of ways cancer has touched my life, I decided to focus my energies on studying the rights of students who are facing terminal or chronic illness, or who have family members doing so.  I am pursuing this study largely under the umbrella of the rights and accessibility for college students with mental illness concerns.  (Grieving falls under this category.)

presence* is devoted to the loving memory of three individuals who touched my life, each in their own way.  This is where the "RSL" in the username comes from.

If you would like to know more about presence*, or would like to be involved in any way, please feel free to email me.  (There is an email link in the right sidebar.)

Thank you for clicking on my blog, and for your support in the mission to cure cancer!