Lisa R. Burke currently serves as the Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement Program Coordinator and as a SOGI/LGBTQ Resource Navigator at the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts. She began her public sector career in the Bail Unit in Hudson Vicinage in 1990 and joined the staff of the Administrative Office of the Courts in 2004 following six years in higher education administration. She has extensive academic and professional background in diversity issues, the delivery of related trainings, and the development of SOGI/LGBTQ-focused diversity and inclusion-informed best practices in the courts. Some of her areas of academic and professional expertise and interest including gender, race, culture, sexuality, age, religion, ability, and human rights and the intersections of these sometimes seemingly conflicting aspects of identity and experience. Lisa is an active and engaged member of the NJSBA and enjoys involvement in several sections and committees. A published author of both academic and creative works, she also has experience as a PK-16 teacher and expertise in adult education, having designed, developed, and taught a variety of college-level courses and court-based professional development and continuing legal education (CLE) trainings. She has presented nationally and published on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, human rights across cultures, gender in complex humanitarian crises, law-related education, communication in cyberspace, and LGBTQI and SOGI access to justice issues. Among her many professional endeavors, Lisa is a member of the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts and the New Jersey State Bar Association. As an NJSBA member she is active and engaged in a number of sections and committees including the LGBT Rights Section, Minorities in the Profession Section, Immigration Law Section, and the Government, Public Sector, and Public Interest Legal Professionals Special Committee. A graduate of New Jersey City University and Columbia University, she also has undertaken post-graduate courses through the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs certificate program in diversity and inclusion and is currently pursuing additional advanced studies through the Washington University at St. Louis School of Law.