{"id":4929,"date":"2025-03-31T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=4929"},"modified":"2026-09-29T20:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:46:14","slug":"lisa-trefzger-clarke","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/people\/lisa-trefzger-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Trefzger Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lisa Trefzger Clarke is an educator, scholar and social justice advocate living on the Treaty 20 and Williams Treaties&#8217; traditional lands of the Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg. She&#8217;s the daughter of a German immigrant and German-Jewish refugee, and identifies as queer and disabled. With over 20 years of experience in nonprofit work and leadership, she now researches the intersections of feminist care work, policy, legislation and frontline practice. Her scholarship includes intersectional feminism, adult and transformative learning, public education, feminist psychotherapy, and the voluntary sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, she helped to launch and build the MPNL program&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wip\/wip-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Women in Philanthropy<\/a> research initiative, which produces and shares <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wip\/wip-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research on women in philanthropy<\/a>, facilitates mutual learning among women changemakers, and increases understanding of how diverse voices are shaping philanthropy in ways that can lead to systemic change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4930,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Lisa","cu_people_last_name":"Trefzger Clarke","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[33],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-4929","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-postdoctoral-fellows"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Postdoctoral Researcher in the MPNL Program","cu_people_degree":"Master of Adult Education (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada). PhD in Canadian Studies (Frost Centre for Canadian Studies, Trent University, Canada).","cu_building":"CU","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lisa-trefzger-clarke","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4929\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mpnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}