Lisa Garcia Quiroz

Summary

Lisa Garcia Quiroz is a media executive and serves as Senior Vice President of Time Warner Inc. In her current role, Garcia Quiroz oversees the Time Warner Foundation and the company’s corporate responsibility practices, and she serves as the company’s first Chief Diversity Officer.
Garcia Quiroz has dedicated her career to identifying new audiences for many of Time Warner’s biggest brands and to reinforcing Time Warner’s reputation as an exceptional content creator, good corporate citizen, and employer of choice for the best talent. She was the launch Publisher of People en Español and she founded Time Magazine’s first successful brand spin-off, Time for Kids.

Garcia Quiroz is an active and visible champion for the U.S. Hispanic community and for greater diversity in the arts. She serves on a number of significant nonprofit boards including the Public Theater, Corporation for National and Community Service and Hispanic Scholarship Fund.

Early Life and Education

Garcia Quiroz is of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent and was born in Staten Island, New York, the daughter of Neida Quiroz of Naranjito, Puerto Rico, and Armando Quiroz of Brooklyn, New York. Garcia Quiroz first attended PS 22 on Staten Island, which later became the inspiration for Time for Kids when she revisited the school as Principal for a Day in 1994. She later attended St. Teresa’s on Staten Island through the eighth grade and graduated as valedictorian, and Notre Dame Academy High School.

Garcia Quiroz studied sociology as an undergraduate at Harvard University and she worked numerous jobs on campus including Coordinator of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program and Assistant House Manager at the American Repertory Theater. She was also an active leader on campus participating in a number of extracurricular activities, including Education for Action, Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, and the Chicano Women’s Caucus.

In 1990, she graduated from the Harvard Business School with a Masters in Business Administration. Reflecting on her time at Harvard Business School, she told LeanIn.org “My goal was to eventually lead an organization that would make a difference in people’s lives. I felt strongly about the power of media and the influence it has on people’s views of themselves and others; I wanted to have a voice in that future.”

Career