Elizabeth “Lisa” Damen is a first-generation American, born to Dutch immigrants and bilingual. Even though she was born and raised mostly in South Louisiana, she has lived abroad, growing up in The Netherlands and living briefly in Beirut, Lebanon. She has over 45 years of experience in accounting, administrative, data entry and banking, and is excited—after more than 10 years at Emanu El— to work directly with our members and the temple’s database. Lisa ran a successful professional decorative painting business (Creative Wall Designs) for 3 ½ years. Her weekends are usually filled with decorating, gardening, and fixing anything and everything. She loves spending time with her best friends, playing video games, traveling, and visiting her family overseas, and not trying very hard to be the crazy corgi lady to River, who she enters in every corgi race she can find (who knew corgi racing was a thing?!!).
