Liza Cariaga-Lo
Dr. Liza Cariaga-Lo, Ph.D. is the CEO and Founder of The LCLO Group. She is an internationally renowned and respected academic, educator, psychologist, workforce development specialist, and evaluator.
From 2013 until 2017, she served as Vice President for Academic Development, Diversity & Inclusion and as a faculty member in the Education Department at Brown University. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Cariaga-Lo was Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University. Before this, she was Assistant Dean at the Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Director of the Office for Diversity & Equal Opportunity as well as a faculty member at the Yale Medical School. She has also been an Assistant Professor of Medical Education at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. She received her doctoral training in developmental psychology from Harvard University.
She consults widely on diversity, inclusion and equity issues, as well as on broader capacity building and strategic planning in higher education. Dr. Cariaga-Lo was a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NAGMS) Council and has served as Chair of the NIH–NIGMS Minority Programs Review Committee. She continues to work closely with federal agencies and foundations on broad diversity initiatives to develop and support young scholars from diverse backgrounds.
Her areas of research and teaching include diversity & inclusion metrics and program evaluation, developmental aspects of cultivating talent among historically underserved groups, ethnic minority health and education disparities, and public and institutional policies and practices to address inequality. She received the Chang-Lin Tien Leadership in Education Award from the Asian Pacific Fund in 2014.
She is currently completing work on a book about the identity development of Asian Americans. Over the past few years, Dr. Cariaga-Lo has served as a consultant to the SMART Student Health and Wellness Model programs to assess the impact of the model in achieving health and education outcomes in support of diverse communities.