Lise Balk King is an Emmy® Award-nominated and Cinema Eye Honors-nominated documentary filmmaker and social impact producer, consultant in media and communications strategy, and public health policy specialist. King has a BA in History from Mt. Holyoke College and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, where she also served three years as a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. She studied documentary filmmaking at Harvard VES. King is a former Select Board Member (2018-2021) for the Town of Provincetown, MA, a founding and current Board Member of the Provincetown Public Art Foundation, and hosts a monthly podcast on WOMR, Outermost Community Radio, "Navigating the Sea Changes: How we can survive and thrive in our evolving world."

Her work has spanned the roles of producer, publisher, advocate, consultant, event organizer, writer, editor, filmmaker, and photographer. Ms. King's work first focused on using major media and corporate engagement for mainstream advocacy and education, focusing on environmental issues and social justice. After completing work as an assistant producer/researcher on MTV's first major documentary project, Decade, which won a Peabody Award, she initiated and co-produced a short series of environmental action pieces for MTV News. Other early clients included IBM, the Sociodade Culturale Arte Brasil for NHK Japan, Warner Brothers/ABC TV, ECO (the Earth Communications Office), Friends of Animals International (with NBC), and Body Glove surf gear for a national theatrically-released Earth Day campaign.