Interior designer, author, rally driver, reality television personality
Lisa Christoffersen (also known as Mama Chui) is a Kenyan interior designer, author, rally driver, and reality television personality. She is the founder of several art and design businesses and she has curated exhibitions in Nairobi.[1]
Christoffersen was born in Moshi, Tanzania in 1964, at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. She is a third-generation member of the Danish diaspora in East Africa.[3] She spent some of her childhood in Arusha, where she studied for three years before moving to Denmark for further education.[3]
Career
Christoffersen’s first job was at Copenhagen Airport, working with Scandinavian Airlines. She later worked at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi as an interior designer and in Tanzania as an operations manager for a tour company.[3]
In 2001, Christoffersen founded Lisa Christofferson Art, an art gallery, followed in 2002 by Sanza Interiors, an interior design company in Nairobi. In 2020, she launched Lifestyle Nairobi, a lifestyle and design hub.[3]
Sarova Art Festival (2020), showcasing artists from Kibera[5]
African Inspirations exhibition at Fairmont The Norfolk (2019)[6]
Submerge, an underwater photographic exhibition at Serena Hotel (2020)[7]
Christoffersen founded the Lioness Rally in 2022, Kenya’s first all-women motorsport event, to demonstrate women’s participation in rallying.[8]
She competed in the 2024 annual Safari Rally as part of the government-backed Talanta Hela all-women team.[9] She also competed in the Nanyuki Rally, racing in a Subaru Impreza.[10]
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