Boston area resident & recording artist, Lisa Ostrow, volunteers her time and talents to raise funds for the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Foundation and the Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind (PAD/NFB) - both nonprofits are dear to her heart.

Blind from birth, Lisa earned a cum laude degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Harvard. Honored for her excellence as a pianist and vocalist in the U.S. and Canada, Lisa is donating the proceeds from her first CD, "Unconditional" to the PKD Foundation. She is participating in two projects for the PAD/NFB. She was recently chosen to head the committee for the Mary Ann Parks Performing Arts Scholarship, and she donated her recording of "Once Upon a Time" to the "Sound in Sight, Vol. 1" CD a compilation of the work of eighteen blind recording artists. Proceeds support PAD/NFB advocacy and networking projects which assist blind people in all aspects of performing arts including not only music and songwriting but also acting, sound engineering and broadcasting.

Lisa, who has never let her blindness stand in her way, is the mother of three teenage girls. Her thirteen-year-old identical twins suffer from PKD, a life-threatening disease effecting 12.5 million people worldwide. Her daughters and husband, Peter, provide back-up vocals on "Once Upon a Time."