Lisa Singh was born in Hobart in 1972 and has lived in the Denison electorate most of her life.

Lisa completed her secondary education at St Mary's college and Elizabeth College in Hobart and completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree at the University of Tasmania in 1996.

Lisa has two sons and her parents both reside in the electorate.

Lisa has worked in public relations and the union movement, as well as an advisor to both Federal and State Labor members of parliament.

Lisa has been actively involved in various community organisations and is the current President of the United Nations Association – Tasmanian Division.

She is also the former manager of arts@work, a business unit of Arts Tasmania, in the Government Department of Tourism, Parks, Heritage and the Arts.

And she is the Convenor of the Australian Republican Movement Tasmanian Branch.

She has been active in the peace movement in Hobart and was awarded Hobart Citizen of the Year in 2004 for her peace activism against the war in Iraq , especially how war affected women and children.

She has been a women's rights activist in the areas of women's health and women and work, and was the former Director of the Tasmanian Working Women's Centre.

Lisa has a long involvement in politics and the ALP. She served terms of president and secretary of the ALP's New Town branch for over four years. She holds elected positions on committees of the ALP and is former chair of one of the ALP's platform policy committees.