Lisa Cypers Kamen was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in New York City where she attended both junior high and high school. With a natural talent for bringing empty spaces to life with color and texture, Lisa studied architecture, design, and fiber arts at the Boston Architectural College. She earned a certificate in architectural drafting from the Lowell Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982. Lisa worked as a designer, drafter, and space planner for numerous Boston area firms including King/Warner Associates/JPK Designs, GTE, and Northeastern University. During her time in Cambridge, Lisa established, Mingo Design, a firm specializing in architectural, interior, and graphic design. Her dynamic personality and joy in communicating also landed her steady work as a first year design studio instructor at the Boston Architectural College from 1983 through 1985.
Lisa moved back to Los Angeles in 1986 to work as a Project Manager for Vomar Products, Inc. During her ten years at Vomar, she specialized in international business development and operations management of architectural signage and graphic information systems
for the aviation and transportation industries.
Lisa resides with her family in Los Angeles. From 1996 to the present, Lisa has relished being a happy homemaker, while being an avid scholar or adventurer. While cycling through northern India, Lisa produced the 10-minute film, A Passage Through India—Diamonds in the Rough, which helped her earn a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Union Institute & University in 2006. She also used the film to successfully raise funds for the Sulaxmi School for Girls in Lucknow, India, which she and her family continue to support.
It was on this biking adventure in Northern India that Lisa was profoundly moved by the genuine happiness and joy of the Indian people
she met, despite their extreme poverty. This experience was her inspiration for H-Factor…Where is Your Heart?, Lisa’s current
documentary film exploring how people—in varied circumstances—find, generate, and share happiness. In 2007, Lisa submitted a half-hour
version of H-Factor as part of her thesis to earn her Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. H-Factor
will be the springboard for Lisa’s eventual pursuit of a Doctorate degree in the burgeoning field of Positive Psychology.