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Lisa Craig Gautier
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Lisa Gautier is the president of Matter of Trust, an ecological 501(c)3 public charity. Gautier co-founded Matter of Trust in 1998 with her husband, Patrice Olivier Gautier. In the media Gautier was featured in Wired Magazine (2000) promoting ExcessAccess and on the front page of The Wall Street Journal about hair clippings for oil spills NPR All Things Considered The Washington Post San Francisco Chronicle BBC United Kingdom CBC Canada Le Monde France RTL France Radio "Backstage" Gautier credits Rachel Maddow for bringing the hair booms to the attention of the Boom Acquisition Department hero Lisa Kudchadker-Grasso at BP. After seeing the information on MSNBC, Kudchadker-Grasso contacted Gautier in regards to using the hair, fur, and fleece. "Open the floodgates! We need all the fiber we can get, I'm very concerned about the canals in Louisiana." Education Gautier attended SFUSD public and private schools Convent of the Sacred Heart and the acclaimed trade intensive Lick-Wilmerding High School (LWHS). She has kept close ties with LWHS by partnering on many projects together, including a large green building student architecture exhibit for the UN World Environment Day 2005. After high school Gautier moved to the UK to study breeding of endangered species and zoo management at Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust in the Channel Islands. Gautier has taken language and business courses at the Sorbonne, Paris and SF City College. Working after school and summer jobs continually from the time she was 9 years old, Gautier is a strong advocate for the importance of excellent low-tech apprenticeship programs in high school education. She has spoken on panels about how college (especially accruing college debt) is not for everyone. Gautier also volunteered and interned at the San Francisco SPCA, the California Marine Mammal Center, and most enjoyed raising orphaned raccoons, birds and squirrels with the Josephine Randall Museum all through High School. Personal life Gautier married Patrice Olivier Gautier in 1993. They reside with their three daughters in San Francisco, California. Publications It's Easy Being Green, written by Jennifer Pratt, edited and forward by Lisa Gautier 2003. This book is printed on hemp paper with soy ink. The Key in the Sea, written by Lisa Gautier, illustrated by Cody Chancellor 2010 The Prize in the Skies, written by Lisa Gautier, illustrated by Cody Chancellor 2011 
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