Lise Downe has been central to the daily operations of LGA since 2009. Lise's skill as office manager is partially born out of her first-hand familiarity with the creative design process. Her early-career paintings and drawings have been in exhibited in Canada and Mexico and today she is an established jewellery designer. Lise studied jewellery at OCAD University and George Brown College and her work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in Montreal and Toronto. Lise has also published four books of poetry. The most recent, titled 'This Way', came out in 2011 with BookThug.