Lisa Senecal

Lisa Senecal is an American writer, communications consultant, and advocate based in Stowe, Vermont. She is founding editor of Lincoln Square, a political Substack publication, and previously served as chair of the Vermont Commission on Women. She is known for her writing and advocacy on workplace sexual harassment, including her role in shaping Vermont's 2018 sexual harassment law.

Early life Senecal is a fourth-generation Vermonter who grew up in Orange, Vermont, and lives in Stowe.

Career Senecal is a co-founder of The Maren Group, a communications and marketing firm that works with clients on issues including workplace discrimination and sexual harassment.

She has worked as a columnist for VTDigger and her writing has appeared in The Daily Beast, the New York Daily News, and USA Today. She co-hosted "We're Speaking" on Lincoln Project Television with Maya May beginning in 2021.

Vermont Commission on Women In 2017, Senecal was appointed by Governor Phil Scott to the Vermont Commission on Women, a non-partisan state commission. She was elected chair of the Commission in June 2019 and subsequently served as one of three co-chairs alongside Kiah Morris and Kellie B. Campbell. VTDigger reported that DeLuca had resigned from Inntopia in June 2017 after an internal investigation, and that a second woman, Alison Miley, subsequently filed a lawsuit making similar allegations.

Senecal worked with Vermont State Representative Sarah Copeland Hanzas in support of H.707, a 2018 bill addressing workplace sexual harassment. She provided testimony before the Vermont legislature in April 2018 and participated in public discussion of the legislation alongside Copeland Hanzas. The bill, which Governor Scott signed on May 30, 2018, and which took effect July 1, 2018, banned certain non-disclosure provisions and "no-rehire" clauses in harassment settlements and was covered nationally by PBS NewsHour as a notable state-level response to the Me Too movement.