Lisa Ortiz (she/her) is an Afro-Latina author, speaker, survivor advocate, and founder of Scars Like Wings Inc., using her lived experience to help others understand that trauma, incarceration, abuse, addiction, and loss do not have to define the rest of their lives.

Her signature talk? From Survival to Purpose: Turning Scars Into Wings.

Through faith, accountability, healing, and radical honesty, Lisa challenges audiences to stop seeing their past as a life sentence and start seeing it as a chapter. Beyond the stage, she’s a published memoirist, advocate, content creator, and proud Afro-Latina woman committed to helping survivors feel seen, heard, and capable of beginning again.