[10] Mazzone was raised in Versoix, where she attended the local schools, obtaining her Matura from Collège André-Chavanne.

[12] As she later explained to an interviewer, that was when she decided to devote herself 100% to her favourite pastime, political and social ("associatif") engagement.

Under the relevant cantonal legislation, election to the national parliament had meant resignation from the Grand Council of Geneva on 12 November 2015.

In the elections for the "Conseil des États" she is hoping to win the seat made vacant by the recently announced retirement from the chamber of her party colleague Robert Cramer.

[18] Many of the slopes around the foreshore at the western end of Lake Geneva are reassuringly gentle: Lisa Mazzone became a passionate advocate for cycling when she was barely a teenager.

In February 2015 Lisa Mazzone came to prominence as a leader in the Grand Council of a small group of deputies supporting the so-called "stop bunkers" movement.

The "stop bunkers" protesters included (but were not restricted to) asylum seekers being accommodated underground who were complaining about lack of sunshine or ventilation, terrible and rotting food, the impossibility of sleeping under the 24-hour lighting and in the noisy conditions, and the indestrucability of the bed bugs.

[22] She is co-president, along with Priska Seiler Graf of the Social Democratic Party in Zürich, of the "Environment and Health Coalition for responsible air transport" ("Coalition environnement et santé pour un transport aérien responsable" / CESAR) created in September 2016 by 20 like-minded Swiss associations and organisations.

[24] Since May 2018 she has also served as president for the Swiss section of the Society for Threatened Peoples which emerged in 1970 from the Hamburg-based "Aktion Biafra-Hilfe" movement.