Lisa Campbell Salazar is a jack-of-all-trades and has worked as a community-based researcher, youth facilitator, multi-media designer and digital strategist.   She has a wide berth of experience collaborating with various NGOs and agencies including; Gendering Adolescent AIDS Prevention, TakingITGlobal, Youth Action Network, Defense for the Children International, the Latin American Council for Adult Education, Central Toronto Community Health Centres and Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services. Most recently, Lisa’s expertise with social media has led her to serve as the Community Evangelist for GetInvolved.ca.

Lisa has worked for over ten years as an HIV/AIDS peer educator and community based researcher with the Toronto Raver Info Project (TRIP!) providing harm reduction information to youth in the dance music community.  As a Universities Without Walls Fellow, she is interested in integrating new media technology, HIV prevention and community-based research. While her experiences in health promotion and HIV research are broad, she is in the final stages of her Master of Environmental Studies with a special focus on Youth, New Media and Social Change.

Lisa has spoken at numerous academic and community conferences such as the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) Research Conference, the Urban Youth and the Determinants of Sexual Health Student Symposium, the Fulbright Institute of International Education Conference, the Interactive Technology in Education Symposium and the original MobileTech4SocialChange barcamp in San Francisco. As an academic and community worker her work has been featured in the Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Panorama Magazine, and she has served on the editorial board of the Women & Environments International Magazine and as the Editor-in-Chief of Youth Action Forum Magazine.