User:Homestar9/Lisa Stone Pritzker

Lisa Stone Pritzker
Born	Highland Park, Illinois, US
Education	University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA) University of San Francisco
Known for	Philanthropy
Children	3, including Adam
Parent(s)	Maryon and Ira Stone

Lisa Stone Pritzker is an American philanthropist and community leader known for her extensive work advancing the arts and civic life, as well as maternal and child health and emotional well-being.

Lisa was born in Highland Park, Illinois, the daughter of Maryon and Ira Stone. She was heavily influenced by her grandparents, who started the Emergency Fund, now called All Chicago Making Homelessness History^[1], as well as an uncle, Jerome Stone, who helped found the Alzheimer’s Association and Chicago’s Contemporary Art Museum^[2]. She earned her Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in dance therapy, and pursued a career in public relations in Chicago. In 1984, Lisa moved to San Francisco. She furthered her education with a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco.

Lisa Stone Pritzker is the Founder and Chair The LSP Family Foundation^[3], which advances systems-changing organizations that address children’s, maternal, and mental health, and supports the arts, civic life, and Jewish engagement in humanitarian efforts.

Stone Pritzker has also been instrumental in various high-impact initiatives, including her past service on the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Board of Directors, where she played a key role in establishing the UCSF Department of Psychiatry’s Child, Teen, and Family Center^[4]. She served in various leadership capacities with Jewish Vocational Services, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and its Foundation, Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Stanford University’s Challenge Success program, Peer Health Exchange, the National Advisory Council of Futures Without Violence, and the First Five Commission. Her research for UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services at San Francisco General Hospital on financial barriers for victims of crimes led to beneficial new legislation.

Lisa Stone Pritzker serves on the Boards of Directors of Project Healthy Minds^[5], San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[6], The Steinberg Institute, All Chicago Making Homelessness History^[7], as well as on the advisory boards for The Clinton Foundation’s Too Small To Fail Campaign^[8] and the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine^[9].

In 2011, The California Institute of Integral Studies awarded Lisa Stone Pritzker an honorary doctorate for her commitment to children’s health^[10]. In 2024, Lisa was named a Bay Area Woman Who Inspires by the Nob Hill Gazette^[11]. Lisa writes about issues of concern, and contributed a guest commentary to Cal Matters on fixing the youth mental health crisis^[12].

Lisa Stone Pritzker and her former husband John Pritzker have three adult sons.