de la Raza with a replica of the Aztec calendar stone. By the 1980s, Janti left Tom Bradley's staff, took graduate courses, and then served on the faculty of School of Education at National University near San Diego teaching courses in holistic education based on the ANISA model. She also continued to speak at Baháʼí conferences like the Oregon state women's conference, served on the team commemorating Dizzy Gillespie's 50th yr in music in 1985 and was on the team giving a "spiritual parenting" workshop at a children's conference in Pasadena in 1987. In 1992, she worked on projects for the city of Los Angeles and as executive director of U.P. Inc. founded by David Viscott. From November 2000 to September 2001, Janti worked on the Commission on Older Americans for Santa Monica. After publishing an introductory text on the religion in 2005, she served as the program director of the Desert Rose Baháʼí Institute at least circa 2008-9 and she continued to write. Film and television Most of her later career was in the Western genre. Her first role may have been in 1954 in the TV series The Public Defender, based on the film of the same name. On television, she appeared in 1955 as Rosa on the TV western Cheyenne in the episode "Border Showdown" (Showdown in Paso Also). In 1956 in Jane Wyman's Fireside Theater episode of "A Time To Live", in the Sugarfoot show episode "Guns for Big Bear" in 1958 and in the 1960 S2E15 episode "Pigeon and Hawk" in Bat Masterson. In 1962 she was in Combat! episode "A Day in June". Janti was known as the "Starlet of many faces" probably portraying more diverse ethnic roles though she was Polish including Polynesian, Native American, Mexican, Burmese, French, Italian, Spanish, east Indian and Persian – roles with dubious cultural and sexist stereotypes. Among the productions Janti was cast in are She Gods of Shark Reef, Ten Thousand Bedrooms, Pearl of the South Pacific, Jump Into Hell, The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold, and World Without End. Further research References External links Lisa Janti Interview Podcast of Lisa Janti IMDb entry for Lisa Montell Polish emigrants to the United States American people of Russian descent American Bahá'ís American film actresses American television actresses Living people 1933 births Converts to the Bahá'i Faith from Protestantism 20th-century Bahá'ís 21st-century Bahá'ís 20th-century American actresses