In her spare time, Dr. Bootstaylor is an active philanthropically and a community dynamo. She is devoted to causes for children with learning disabilities and an active physician in the organization Sister's By Choice, an organization which increases the awareness of breast cancer in the African-American community. Dr. Bootstaylor is on the advisory board of The Atlanta Chapter of 100 Black Women and is a regional interviewer and representative for Swarthmore College, her alma mater. Dr. Lisa Bootstaylor is married and has three children.