Lisandra Tena is a Mexican-American actress born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She began her acting training at Working Classroom in Albuquerque and graduated magna cum laude with a BFA in Acting from the prestigious Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago. To list a few, her theatre credits include Mother Road (Goodman Theatre), Crime Scene and This Is Not a Cure for Cancer (Collaboraction Theater Company), Augusta and Noble (Adventure Stage) and Your Problem with Men (Los Angeles Theatre Center). She has performed her self-written one-woman show, Guera, in Chicago, New Mexico, and Arizona, and her Los Angeles debut is scheduled in August of 2017. She has appeared in numerous short films, commercials, voiceovers, and as Lina Ochoa on the NBC television show Chicago P.D. In 2013, the Chicago Tribune named her One of the Top 10 New Faces in Chicago Theater. She was a recipient of the 2015 Residency Fellowship from the Women's International Study Center and is an ensemble member of Teatro Luna.