Carmen Lishman

Carmen Lishman, Bill Lishman's daughter, is a Canadian biologist and Speech Language Pathologist born in 1983 and raised in Blackstock, Ontario. She runs a small organization focused on improving education, health care and sustainable development in rural Nicaragua, where she lived for several years and met her husband Carmelo Acuña. Carmen now lives in Ontario working as a speech therapist in Durham Region and supports conservation biology and rural community development in Latin America on the side.

Carmen Lishman was an inspiration for the character of Amy Alden and played one of Amy's classmates in the Fly Away Home motion picture. As a child, Carmen experienced the geese with her father as he was raising them to follow an aircraft and can be seen in many documentaries about his work. Before Anna Paquin arrived on set in Ontario for shooting, Carmen was recruited as a stand-in and the geese first imprinted on her playing a recording of the actress' voice.