Dr. Lisette Garcia

Lisette Garcia holds a PhD in experimental psychology from Tufts University. She has taught at Harvard and Columbia University and she later became a professor at John Jay College Of Criminal Justice. As a native of El Paso, Texas and the daughter of Mexican immigrants, her experience as a Mexican American women and human rights advocate has taken her to many different worlds: as a civil rights activist who worked directly with Maya Angelou and Coretta Scott King; as a psychologist for child soldiers in Liberia; as a prisoner’s advocate for the India prison system; and as a Buddhist scholar with over 20 years of practice and 4 years of silent meditation practice. She is also a percussionist and voting member of the Latin Recording Academy and has worked on numerous albums in Peru, Brazil, and the United States.