Lisa Michael is a Physics teacher at Summit Denali High School in Sunnyvale, CA, and has taught Advanced Placement Physics for over 30 years in several San Francisco Bay Area high schools. She has also been an investor in and property manager of single-family homes in multiple west coast college towns for the past 21 years. She has a BS from Cornell University in Materials Science and Engineering and an MS and MA from Stanford University in Materials Science and Engineering as well as Education, respectively.