Alisa Bales Baur joined the Women’s Fund group Helping Hands in 2019. She became a Grantee Liaison this year. Currently retired, she was the Art Director at Santa Barbara Magazine from 2000-2015. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she worked at the design firm Gottschalk + Ash in New York City and later formed her own practice in Houston, Texas, before moving to Santa Barbara with her husband Bob and two young children in 1993. Alisa and Bob have been making contributions to non-profits through their family foundation since 2008, primarily in the fields of education, the underserved, and the arts.