Lisa Curtis is the Founder & CEO of Kuli Kuli, the leading brand pioneering the sustainable superfood moringa. Kuli Kuli's superfood powders and snacks are sustainably sourced from African women and other small farmers around the world and sold in 11,000 U.S. stores. Lisa began working on Kuli Kuli while serving in the Peace Corps and has grown her company into a multi-million dollar social enterprise. Before Kuli Kuli, Lisa served as the Communications Director at Mosaic, where she managed a team of six to grow the company from zero to over $5M invested in clean energy. Previously, Lisa wrote political briefings for President Obama in the White House, served as a United Nations Environment Programme Youth Advisor, and worked at an impact investment firm in India. Lisa has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Inc. Magazine's Top 100 Female Founders list. She's been featured in numerous outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and MSNBC's Morning Joe.

CREATOR PROFILE

Lisa Curtis

Entrepreneur / Author

Before building a superfood company stocked in eleven thousand stores, Lisa wrote political briefings in the White House, advised the United Nations Environment Programme on youth engagement, and worked for an impact-investment firm in India. She started her current company during a Peace Corps posting and has spent the years since reshaping a niche African ingredient into a mainstream American grocery category. Forbes and Inc. have both named her to their major founder lists; her editorial voice reflects the policy, NGO, and operator backgrounds woven together.

California, United States

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EXPERIENCE WITH PROPS

Lisa produces long-form editorial and founder-led content for brands in the wellness, nutrition, sustainability, and impact-investing spaces. Her portfolio spans major business-press bylines and independent newsletters, and her operator credibility gives her content on sourcing, supply chains, and ethical consumer goods a weight that most creator-written pieces in the category lack.

Subject Matter

Wellness nutrition, sustainable food systems, impact investing, and founder-stage entrepreneurship. Lisa's published work examines how mission-driven consumer brands actually get built — sourcing decisions, fundraising trade-offs, category creation — drawing on two decades of policy, NGO, and operator experience.

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Content Formats

Editorial writing and founder storytelling, including contributor bylines and long-form essays. Lisa writes in a reported, case-study register rather than a lifestyle one, and her pieces read as primary-source accounts from someone actually inside the decisions being described.

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Lisa Curtis

Lisa writes about founding a mission-driven business from the inside of the work rather than the top of it. Her piece on the lessons she learned starting her company is structured as ten specific operator mistakes — fundraising missteps, hiring regrets, early-category positioning that almost sank the brand. The prose is plainspoken, unsentimental, and useful.

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