Changing Outlook

about. I want to educate and empower others to live their healthiest version of their life.”

Until that point, Agona—and any outside viewer—would have thought that she was living a life that was happy and successful.

A Clear Vision from the Start

Throughout her childhood and high school years, Agona had been a strong student, especially in math, and so she determined that she wanted to become an accountant so she could take over her father’s printing business.

Like so many SUNY Oswego students throughout the years, Agona visited campus on a beautiful August day when Mother Nature provided a warm breeze off the water to accompany a spectacular sunset.

“I was like, ’Oh my God, yeah, this is perfect,’” she remembered. “What I didn’t realize was that there would also be the snow, the cold or any of those things, but as it turned out, it was one of the best decisions that I ever made.”

In addition to loving her accounting courses with Prof. Bill Lundy, she also met the love of her life, her husband of 27 years, Chad Agona ’93

Chad had just transferred into Oswego and was settling into the third floor of Seneca. As a new student, he had a course catalog to review to help him pick out courses. When Lisa got closed out of a class, she needed to scan the catalog to find another course.

“Nobody had catalogs, but then someone said, ’Oh, I think the new guy does,’” she recalled. “I banged on his door and he gave me his catalog. We still have the catalog.”