Lisa Lopez

Lisa Lopez, the first ever Women’s Studies major at Ohio State University, and a 1979 graduate of Yale Law School, retired in 2011, after a legal career of more than thirty years. For almost twenty-five years, she was the chief legal officer at Haemonetics Corporation, a publicly traded global medical device company whose proprietary technology transformed transfusion medicine for patients and blood donors throughout the world. During her career there, in addition to managing legal affairs, she also managed human resources, quality and regulatory affairs, clinical affairs, investor relations, internal audit, employee health and safety and external affairs. Under her leadership, the company introduced its daycare and summer camp programs, and the first CSR program. She served on the company’s Operating Committee and Executive Committee and was clerk to the Board of Directors. Previously, Lisa was a litigator with Sullivan & Worcester’s Boston office, focusing on employment litigation.

In addition to her professional responsibilities, at various times during her career Lisa served on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, as a volunteer attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, a member and Chair of the New England Legal Foundation, a member and Chair of MassMedic, a board member of the National Research Center for Women and Families, and a member of the Parish Council and Finance Council of St. Gerard’s Magella church. She is currently a member of the board of trustees of Cathedral High School, an urban high school for college bound city youth, chair of Canton’s Community Preservation Committee, and a member of the board and chairman of the Compensation Committee of Radius Bank, an innovative banking fintech.

As an Access to Justice Fellow, Lisa will work as pro bono lawyer at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) representing undocumented, unaccompanied minors seeking the right to remain in the U.S. through asylum and Special Juvenile Immigrant proceedings. KIND serves as the leading organization for the protection of children who enter the U.S. immigration system alone and strives to ensure that no such child appears in immigration court without representation.