Running with Scissors

Description

I’m Lisa McKenna—a brand designer turned collage artist who’s been mixing strategy with storytelling (long before Canva made everyone think they were a designer). For over two decades, I’ve built identities that actually connect—working with everyone from authors and indie food brands to tech startups, MA Gov Maura Healey, and global heavyweights like The United Nations, UGG, Fleet Bank, and the City of Boston. By 21, I’d already left my mark at Bain & Co., CW56, and Estée Lauder. In my 40s, I went back to school at Startup Institute Boston—a bold midlife pivot that landed me a feature on Justine Bateman’s Smarty Pants Women . Then in 2020, somewhere between a creative rut and a world on pau

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