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Lisa Westwood is a Registered Professional Archaeologist with over 26 years of experience in cultural resources management, serving as Vice President and Director of Cultural Resources for ECORP Consulting, Inc., where she specializes in historical archaeology, including Cold War-era aerospace installations, and regulatory and legal compliance with applicable historic preservation law. She is the co-founder of the Apollo 11 Preservation Task Force, composed of preservation professionals who are working toward designation of Tranquility Base on the moon as a World Heritage site, and is a member of the Science, Industry, and Education Advisory Council of For All Moonkind, a non-profit organization seeking international protection for space heritage on the moon.

She led the effort to list the Objects Associated with Tranquility Base on the California Register of Historical Resources and New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties, which was achieved in 2010, and worked with members of Congress to have the site designated a National Historic Landmark. She authored the 2014 resolution by the State of Hawaii to designate July 20 as Tranquility Base Day. She has been featured or appeared in numerous media reports and interviews on national radio, print, and television, including National Public Radio, The Blue Dot, California Life with Heather Dawson, Reuters International, the Washington Post, and Space Times Magazine, among many others. She was an invited panelist for the NASA and the Smithsonian Institution’s “Key Moments in Human Spaceflight Symposium” at NASA Headquarters. She is well-published in the field of space history, including the senior author of her most recent book, titled “The Final Mission: Preserving NASA’s Apollo Sites,” published by the University Press of Florida in 2017. She is a contributing author to Archaeology and Heritage of the Human Movement into Space (2014, Springer Press), several articles and book reviews in Space Times Magazine and Quest: the History of Spaceflight, and an opinion piece for the Washington Post in 2012. She is She also teaches in the anthropology departments at California State University-Chico and Butte College.