Lisa Orden Zarin
 | Lisa Orden Zarin is the founder and executive director of College Bound, an organization that empowers high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed and rise to leadership in four-year colleges. Prior to College Bound, Ms.Orden Zarin was a founding board member and development chair for Meds & Food for kids, (a malnutrition relief organization), a board member, VP and facilitator of Adult Education for Central Reform Congregation, a diversity committee member for New City School, a graduate of Dismantling Racism for Educators Institute, and the Co-Leader of Heart-to-Heart, an organization that helps young people cope with the challenges of living with congenital heart defects. Ms. Orden Zarin continues to serve as a board member for Meds and Food for Kids and is a board member-at-large for NCCJSTL. Ms Orden Zarin's employment history includes twenty years as a professional communicator in the media arts including advertising, film and video, and writing. She has produced and written television and sports documentaries including an award-winning, feature-length, documentary on the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo for which she negotiated the film rights. |
Ms Orden
Ms. Orden Zarin also served as Executive Producer and Senior writer for Reality Productions, a New York based film and video company she founded and later joint ventured with St. Louis-based Contemporary Group's, Steve Schankman. As an independent writer/marketing consultant operating locally, Ms. Zarin has worked for Express Scripts, Sigma Aldrich, Anheuser Bush, and other St. Louis-based corporations. She has contributed her time as a producer/writer to benefit organizations such as Mentor St. Louis and Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Clubs, and has produced tribute videos to honor outstanding St. Louis leaders such as, Jim Buford of the Urban League and Donald Suggs of the St. Louis American. Lisa Orden Zarin holds degrees in English and Education from Rutgers University. She and her husband Larry have two children, Max Julian and Carsen Alexa, ages 19 and 16 respectively. They live in St. Louis's Central West End.
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