President, IQTJ • Digital Technology Leader • Fintech & Social Impact Innovator

Lisa V. Arrington is an innovation executive, social impact strategist, and organizational leader whose work sits at the intersection of digital innovation, financial equity, and global justice. As President of the International Quest for Truth and Justice (IQTJ), she directs worldwide programming that advances social justice, historical reconciliation, and sustainable development across Africa, Brazil, the United States, and throughout the Pan-African Diaspora, leveraging technology as a tool for both accountability and liberation.

Digital Technology & Fintech Leadership

Lisa’s technology journey began in 2019 when she strategically managed the development team for a mobile app platform built to support an international entertainment series in South Africa. Recognizing its broader potential, the project was refocused as an early-adoption fintech “super app” capable of processing transactions in both fiat and digital currencies and incorporating digital media nodes to broadcast targeted marketing campaigns within the platform. Today, she is leading the development of an automated savings and investment fintech bank designed to serve communities in rural northern Ghana, a project that reflects her commitment to bringing digital financial infrastructure to populations that need it most.

In this capacity, Lisa oversees a platform purpose-built to address the financial technology gap in underserved communities, introducing practical tools for financial literacy, digital currency, digital asset acquisition, and sustainable wealth-building. Her technical proficiencies span blockchain applications, AI tools, digital asset systems, fintech platforms, and digital marketing infrastructure. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Arts & Technology from Bloomfield College, with a concentration in Film Production, a foundation that has sharpened her ability to communicate complex technological concepts accessibly and compellingly across diverse audiences.

Organizational Leadership & Global Programming

Appointed President of the IQTJ in June 2025, Lisa leads an organization evolved from the International Truth and Justice Tribunal (ITJT) and the legacy work of the Joe Beasley Foundation. In this role, she drives the organization’s strategic direction, developing partnerships with governments, NGOs, and educational institutions across the U.S., Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean; directing fundraising and grant initiatives; and designing programs rooted in a digital platform structure that span education, technology, and workforce development to create sustainably sovereign eco-systems.

Her approach to organizational leadership is grounded in more than 35 years of managing complex, high-stakes productions and initiatives. As a former Production Manager at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the sixth-largest performing arts venue in the United States, she oversaw more than 100 major productions, directing cross-functional teams, managing multi-stakeholder relationships, and delivering results with precision and creativity. She also served as Associate Casting Director on three major motion pictures for Fox Searchlight Pictures: Notorious, The Secret Life of Bees (NAACP Image Award winner), and The Blind Side(Academy Award -Best Actress, Sandra Bullock). That same operational discipline and relationship-building acumen now guides the IQTJ’s programmatic work—from large-scale international conferences to targeted community interventions.

In 2023, Lisa produced a landmark multi-day conference hosted by the International Truth and Justice Tribunal at both Emory University and Atlanta Metropolitan State College in Atlanta, spotlighting human-rights issues affecting Indigenous communities and the people of Congo.  The conference featured a mock tribunal court and panels of international officials and legal experts. The event demonstrated her capacity to translate complex justice issues into powerful public programming with measurable global impact.

Transition Nexus: Bridging Technology and Community

In 2024, Lisa co-founded Transition Nexus, a dual-division social impact enterprise that operationalized her vision of technology as a vehicle for economic justice. As CEO, she developed the Education & Economic Capability Division, delivering programming in financial literacy, digital finance, digital assets, digital technology awareness, and savings collectives. As the organization’s next phase of expansion, Transition Nexus is activating a Community Development Division that applies a replicable micro-city revitalization model, combining entrepreneurship incubation, cooperative economics, sustainability infrastructure, and digital economic systems, to the economic repopulation of distressed municipalities.

Currently in production, the Transition Nexus Podcast, for which Lisa serves as Co-Host and Executive Producer, will bring practical, accessible conversations on fintech, artificial intelligence, digital assets, and financial independence to a growing national audience. These are topics Lisa considers essential knowledge for communities too often excluded from the digital economy.

Technology in Service of Justice

Lisa V. Arrington’s defining conviction is that digital technology and economic empowerment are not separate from the struggle for justice, they are central to it. Whether architecting fintech tools for underserved communities, producing global justice forums, or leading an international nonprofit, she brings the same integrated vision: that communities equipped with knowledge, technology, and economic agency are communities capable of writing their own futures.