Curriculum Vitae Ms. Cara Cherry Lisco
Ms. Cara Cherry Lisco, a national of the United States of America, is currently Director of SquareTrade Online Dispute Resolution Network. She relocated from New York to San Francisco to join SquareTrade as its first employee. In her role at SquareTrade, she has created the companys online dispute resolution service from the ground up, tailoring services to meet the needs of a range of marketplaces, developing online dispute resolution processes, and launching systems for recruiting, training and supervising over 250 remote mediators and arbitrators as well as a full time in-house staff to support them. Ms. Lisco also serves as SquareTrades liaison on issues concerning public policy, jurisdiction and consumer rights.
Ms. Lisco practiced for four years at Koob & Magoolaghan, where she litigated federal civil rights cases. She interned at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, the American Civil Liberties Union, Women's Rights Project, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.
This year Ms. Lisco has addressed several conferences regarding the importance of creating a method of recourse for ecommerce transactions and the role of online dispute resolution in this context. These include: The Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Conference on electronic exchange; Direct Sellers Education Foundation International Consumer Conference; Direct Selling Association Annual Conference; and the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators Annual Conference.
Ms. Lisco earned her J.D. with distinction from Stanford University and her BA Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University.