Candidate for
Board Member; Cincinnati City School District

Lisa Schare BIO

I am a successful educator, practicing artist, and community volunteer.

I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, and my Master of Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in NYC. I also have a MA in Art Education from the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.

I have been an educator for over 15 years, teaching at the university, high school and elementary levels. I am currently an art teacher at Princeton High School. My success as a teacher there can be judged in terms of the achievement of my students who each year have placed in the Scholastic Art Award competition, as well as the Ohio Governor's Award program.

My success as an artist has been recognized by a number of invited gallery exhibitions both locally and nationally, as well as an Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Fellowship, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, and a City of Cincinnati Individual Artist Grant. I utilized my artistic and teaching skills to work with at-risk youth in urban Cincinnati through the Citizen's Committee on Youth and the Urban Appalachian Council.

I have also shown my devotion to community and political issues. I was nominated as a Woman of the Year in 2004 by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I am an active member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and chaired the successful Grace Place fundraiser. Grace Place provides transitional housing to homeless women and their children in College Hill. I demonstrated my organizational skills by starting the Catholic Democrats of Ohio, a local chapter of the national Catholic Democrats.

I live in Pleasant Ridge with my daughter, Helen, a Walnut Hills High School 7th grader.