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Lisa home educated her actress daughter, Miai Leonie Phillip until she was11 years old and both are advocates for Sickle Cell Anaemia working closely with The Sickle Cell Society, the Afro Caribbean Leukaemia Trust (ACLT) and NHS Blood and Transplant, raising awareness and encouraging more people of color to join the register.

At 15, Lisa told to her careers teacher her dream of becoming an actress. She was informed actors were chronically unemployed and that Lisa was good at languages so should consider joining the lunchtime Latin club.

Lisa played Miss Faith a cantankerous mother-hen figure in Darker the Berry by J.B. Rose originally commissioned and first performed by Second Wave at the Albany Theatre (Deptford). The play was published in "Young Blood: An anthology of five plays for young performers" edited by Sally Goldsworthy.

In 2003 Lisa was awarded a runner's up prize by the BBC Norman Beaton Fellowship (NBF) a radio competition designed to attract more diversity on the airwaves. The Fellowship inspired radio drama plays including Maya Angelou: A Song Flung Up To Heaven. Lisa voiced Dolly McPherson. The play won Best BBC Radio Drama Play 2020 and was dramatized by Patricia Cumper.