Having lived in Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs her entire life, Lissa initially pursued her interest in acting during primary school through theater. Lissa went on to attend Drexel University, studying Business Analytics and Marketing, with minors in Film and Television Production and German. It wasn't until her sophomore year in college where she made her first small debuts as a day player bar girl in the third season of Amy Sherman-Palladino's, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2019) and a principal model working for Pepsi's Funyuns (2019) that she began to develop a finer interest in the arts.