Lisa's speaking and book topics

 

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Hope and humor in every journey

Lisa amuses and inspires with stories ranging from her sailing disaster with a blind seafarer to walking across New York State on the 360-mile Erie Canalway Trail. She shares historic figures who show her the way to press on.

Speaker Topics

1. Walking the Erie Canalway Trail: A Search for 7 Wonders, Bathrooms and Beer to Stop CMV

2. Love Letters: A Union Private & His Teenage Wife During the Civil War

3. How to Raise Awareness (and get laws passed) for Your Cause--even if you’re not thin and famous!

4. Preventing Viral Cause of Autism: CMV (cytomegalovirus), #1 birth defects virus

"Lisa’s talk was both informative and entertaining. I've never seen another speaker get the ladies so engaged and laughing.” Nancy Wilkie, Mystic Women’s Club

An award-winning writer and author of several books, Lisa Saunders shares the importance of recording experiences to improve mental health and show others how to make a difference. Lisa’s books may be in libraries or can be ordered at: www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001K7Z5AC. An interviewer for PAC-B TV, she is reached at LisaSaunders42@gmail.com

BOOKS BY LISA SAUNDERS

1. Walking the Erie Canalway Trail: A Search for 7 Wonders, Bathrooms and Beer to Stop CMV (2024)

2. Ride a Horse, Not an Elevator (2013): A chubby city girl leaves the elevators and bullies of her apartment complex for her grandparents’ farm. Facing her fear of horses and outhouses, she finds a skinny friend who likes her just the way she is.

3. Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife (2004): Civil War love letters reveal war's ever-present threat of death, scandals and infidelities. Also a "reader's theater."

4. Had I Known about CMV (cytomegalovirus): From Shock to Law (2024)

5. Shays' Rebellion: The Hanging of Co-Leader Captain Henry Gale (2013): The dramatic events leading up to the noose around Gale’s neck.

6. After the Loss of a Spouse: From Henry VIII to Julia Child (Act II Publications, LLC, 2016)

7. Mystic Seafarer's Trail: Secrets behind the 7 Wonders, Titanic's Shoes, Captain Sisson's Gold, and Amelia Earhart's Wedding (2012).

8. Once Upon a Placemat: A Table Setting Tale (2016): When a young girl can't remember how to set the table, her grandmother teaches her to listen to the silverware.

9. Surviving Loss: The Woodcutter’s Tale (2013): a tender fairytale for all ages about the process of healing after the death of a loved one.

10. First Ranger Benjamin Church--Epic Poem About King Philip's War (Color Edition 2018): Church Believed in Indians, God and Rum

11. Mystic: Images of Modern America (Arcadia Publishing, 2016, co-author)

Venues and media featuring Lisa include:

• NY Central.com: “Baldwinsville mom celebrates new law in daughter's name to protect pregnant women, babies,” Coleman, M., Dec.15, 2022

• Spectrum News: "Couple pushes for law in memory of their daughter" (Houghtaling, J. , Jul. 01, 2021).

• USA 9 News, News 8, Fox CT

• Cornell and Johns Hopkins Universities

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Washington Independent Writers Association

• Lincoln Depot Museum, Seward House

• Daughters of the American Revolution

Lisa also educates audiences on how to get the attention of law makers and the media to make policy changes. She shares what it took to get Connecticut and New York to pass laws combating the leading viral cause of birth defects, cytomegalovirus (CMV), linked to autism, cerebral palsy and hearing loss. (Lisa is seen above with Governor Malloy holding a photograph of her daughter in 2015.)