Myra Liwanag

Myra O. Liwanag is a versatile consultant, coach, facilitator, and administrator with over twenty-five years of experience in organization development, human resources, non-profit management, and talent development. Myra serves as Executive Director of Iskwelahang Pilipino, one of the oldest Filipino cultural schools in the U.S.A. and recipient of the Philippines’ prestigious Presidential Banaag Award.

As a consultant, Myra approaches engagements with a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens. She works primarily with non-profit organizations that provide education and needed services, uplift communities, and fight for justice.

Experienced in the non-profit, higher education, and corporate arenas, Myra has worked throughout her career to strengthen diverse communities and amplify voices that might otherwise remain unheard. At Brown University, Myra spent over a decade directing alumni affinity programs that increase community engagement. Responsible for the regional engagement strategy for alumni associations around the world, her work involved spearheading alumni diversity initiatives, establishing student-alumni partnerships, coaching leaders, and deploying hundreds of volunteers and faculty for events and programs.

Myra also spent several years working with community-based organizations that championed social justice issues in New York City. Her past professional roles include management consulting with Segal and Community Resource Exchange in New York, where she was instrumental in establishing practices in organizational effectiveness, higher education, human resources, executive search, and leadership development. She began her career at MetLife in the areas of Equal Employment Opportunity and workforce diversity.

Myra studied American Civilization at Brown University and holds an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University Teachers College.