Lisa Trottier, Health Journalist

Lisa Trottier is a journalist whose rich background includes writing or editing on topics such as family issues, lifestyles, travel, food, and health for San Francisco magazine, Via magazine, and other publications. She has also held editorial positions as managing editor of San Francisco magazine, deputy editor of BabyCenter magazine, and at Sunset and Diablo magazines. Lisa's B.A. is from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Lisa lives in Kensington, California, with her husband and two children, who are fond of dragging around the same panda bear and mouse that Lisa's grandmother knit for her when she was a baby. Lisa is one of six kids and notes that they all adore their 66-year-old mother, who recently found true love and married a man who is well over 80 and hikes every day.