Lisa Stenmark attended the Graduate Theological Union, earning her MA in Systematic Theology in 1993, then spent five years at Vanderbilt University and earned her Ph.D. in Religious Studies. She returned to the Bay Area as the Western Regional Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Science's Science and Religion Course Program. She is co-chair of the Science and Religion Section for the AAAS Pacific Region and on the steering committee for the AAR's Science and Religion Course Program. She is also the co-founder and convener or WiRES (Women in Religion, Ethics and the Natural Sciences)

In addition to being a dedicated Star Trek fan, Lisa is interested in Feminist and postmodern epistemologies and their implications for the discourse of science and religion. Stenmark has presented papers on feminist and postmodern philosophies and epistemologies in the context of the science and religion discourse at the American Academy of Religion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and at several CTNS workshops. She is particularly interested in the intersection between theology (especially narrative and process), philosophies of science and ecology, and is currently working on a book combining these interests into a constructive proposal for a theological methodology in science and religion.

Papers:

• An Ecology of Knowledge (originally presented at the American Academy of Religion, Women and Religion Section, in Nasheville) Stenmark gives an overview of feminist and ecological critiques of scientism. She advocates an ecology of knowledge that formulates epistemology as an interrelationship between knower and known, a responsive rationality or form of love. She ends with a postscript about why a feminist should care about the science and religion discourse.
• The Power of Love: Hannah Arendt and Discipleship presented at the Works of Love Conference in 2003