Elizabeth J. Lavin, or Lisa, was born in Santa Clara, California in the June of 1987. She lived in San Jose until she was seven, when she moved to a city near Portland, Oregon (where Matt Groening grew up!) where she currently resides. She loves "The Simpsons," and her favourite characters are, in order, Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson and Bob Terwilliger. Lisa hopes to go to the University of California, Berkeley, when she turns 18 and wants to become a famous actress/writer and to write for "The Simpsons."