Lisa McDuffie, MSSA, LISW-S is an advocate for at-risk woman and children throughout Northwest Ohio. As president and CEO of YWCA of Northwest Ohio since 2001, McDuffie supervises signature programs at three sites serving 20 counties. The YWCA’s signature programs include a 24-hour battered women’s shelter; a 24-hour rape crisis center; a childcare resource and referral; permanent supportive housing apartments; a teen pregnancy prevention program; a breast cancer education program; a job readiness service; and health and wellness projects. She also oversees the YWCA Apartments LLC, development of the I Rise Community Coalition and the community initiative on Dialogue for Change, a program on anti- racism.

McDuffie received her Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University in 1993 and her Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Findlay College in 1988.