Lisa Gardner Ludlow January 21, 1964 – July 1, 2021 Salt Lake City, Utah (formerly Santa Cruz) After fighting beautifully and lovingly with metastatic breast cancer for 4 years, “Lovely Leilani” Lisa ...

Lisa Gardner recalls a childhood marked by attending NAACP meetings in Spokane with her grandmother Sarah Gardner, an activist and well-known business-owner in Spokane’s Black community until her ...

When Lisa Gardner made her way back to Spokane in 2020, she didn't expect to be president of the local NAACP in just a few short years. But that's exactly what happened. When Gardner moved home, one ...

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was in his mid-20s when he rose to prominence as the father of the American Civil Rights Movement. The late U.S. Rep John Lewis was just 21 years old when he became one of ...

Lisa Gardner isn't just leading the oldest civil rights organization in Spokane. She's also a city spokeswoman, as Director of Communications and Community Engagement for Spokane City Council. But she ...