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Nationality
  
United States

Spouse(s)
  
Guy Garcia

Ethnicity
  
Hispanic

Name
  
Lisa Quiroz


Occupation
  
Media executive

Home town
  
Staten Island

Years active
  
23 years

Employer
  
Time Warner

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Alma mater
  
Harvard, B.A. Harvard Business School M.B.A. 1990

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Lisa Garcia Quiroz is a Hispanic-American business executive at Time Warner who oversees its charitable foundation and philanthropic activity and corporate responsibility departments. She serves as the media enterprise's first chief diversity officer and founder of the content incubator OneFifty. Quiroz also serves as President of the Time Warner Foundation.

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Quiroz created and launched Time Inc.'s People en EspaƱol, recognized by Adweek Magazine in 2001 and 2002 for circulation growth. She also created and launched a spin-off publication of Time Magazine, entitled Time for Kids, a magazine geared to children in classrooms which achieved a circulation of over 3.5 million. She serves on a number of nonprofit boards including the Public Theater, the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. She was nominated by American president Barack Obama in 2010 to serve as a director for the Corporation for National and Community Service and was appointed by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg to serve on the city's Commission on Human Rights. In 2016, she was named one of Black Enterprise's Top Executives in Corporate Diversity.

Personal life

Quiroz graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Business School with a Masters in Business Administration. In 2010, Quiroz married author Guy Garcia. She is of Mexican and Puerto Rican ancestry.

References

Lisa Garcia Quiroz Wikipedia