Lisa Geller ~ Extreme Risk Protection Orders

Written on 06/01/2026
Dustin Stenglein


Lisa Geller, MPH, is the Director of Implementation and Core Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and the Co-Lead of the National ERPO Resource Center (ERC). Lisa’ work focuses on research, advocacy, and implementation of evidence-based gun violence prevention policies, including extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) and domestic violence protective orders. As the co-lead of the ERC, Lisa provides training and technical assistance to law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, clinicians, community organizations, and others involved in the ERPO process. Lisa is also a mayoral appointee on the District of Columbia's Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. Lisa graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in political science. She earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) in health policy and injury and violence prevention from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.