Lisa Lindeman
Founder
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Gina Misch
Fractional Officer
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@nomefaa
Youth Advisor
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@luckyluke
Youth Advisor
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Anonymous
Youth Advisor
Lisa Lindeman, Ph.D.
Founder
Second Haven was built by Lisa Lindeman, who manages the Minecraft and Discord servers. Lisa earned her BA in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1999. At Berkeley, she studied the relationship between cognition, emotion, and physical health. The profound overlap between physical health and emotional well-being informed the choice of target audiences for Second Haven (chronic conditions that are physical, psychological, or both). At the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she earned her doctorate, she established an independent lab to study the role of conceptual metaphor and embodied cognition in generating emotional experience.
Between 2010 and 2020, she worked for multiple non-profit organizations dedicated to supporting the emotional development and well-being of children and adolescents. For seven years, she was the Director of Research at Prime Time, a non-profit in Palm Beach County, Florida, where she evaluated the impact of supportive adults and high-quality social settings on the social and emotional well-being of children.
After leaving Prime Time, she became a research consultant for the Palm Health Foundation, Youth Speak Out International, and QTurn, thought leaders that offer support and education to children and youth across the country.
After 2020, she developed long COVID, and in 2022, was diagnosed with Stage III cancer. She is currently in remission but continues to cope with complex, chronic illness (primarily myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome, and postural orthostatic tachycardia).
Her username, MomLisa, comes from her Minecraft beginnings: playing with her two sons when they were young.
Gina Misch
Fractional Officer
Regina Misch supports Second Haven as its Fractional Science Officer, bringing more than 20 years of experience guiding strategy, strengthening impact, and building evidence systems that help mission-driven organizations grow sustainably. She has partnered with healthcare systems, nonprofits, and digital initiatives to design frameworks that not only measure outcomes, but inform decision-making, attract funding, and support responsible scale.
Her work emphasizes mixed-methods research, carefully selecting quantitative and qualitative approaches that best serve stakeholders and participants. Grounded in rigor, ethics, and accessibility, she centers lived experience, recognizing that meaningful evidence includes both measurable outcomes and the voices behind the numbers.
She holds a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a MA. in Sociology from Humboldt State University. She is currently pursuing a dual doctoral program at Quantum University that awards both a Ph.D. and a Doctor of Natural Medicine degree, exploring Consciousness Medicine and the integration of systems science, health, and human awareness. Outside of her professional work, she is most at home kayaking, where being “in the flow” is both practice and philosophy. Within the Second Haven community, she connects under her Minecraft gamertag, Etherness.
