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Tressa Lacy

Child Lumberjack to Changemaker

A Journey of Personal Development through Community Building

At five, Tressa began stacking boards in the family’s logging business. Four years later, she was wielding a chainsaw. After enduring life-shattering logging injuries, Tressa chose a more positive path forward through education, mentoring, and community engagement, emerging as an influential role model and a powerful voice for marginalized women and children. 

Now, a recipient of national and international honors, Tressa champions change as the Founder of Undaunted Women and an International Speaker, inspiring others with her journey from a disempowered past to an empowered present.

As she awaits the publication of her memoir, "Lumberjack Girl," Tressa works as an accounting professor and takes pride in her role as a devoted wife and mother to five spirited children. Actively involved, she is a member of the American Association of University Women SCV and the Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley.