Speakers
Lucy Carrillo is the Executive Director of the Diversity Research Institute, and a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. She oversees the strategic plan for the institute, including the development and implementation of programs and initiatives, and the marketing campaign and outreach efforts to community partners, academic institutions, and business organizations.
As a researcher to the institute, she examines the latest trends in the workplace, analyzing the most cutting-edge diversity and inclusion business ideas and practices, making accessible academic organizational behavior and management theories and methods. Her research has culminated in industry reports, including “Leading While Diverse: The Case for Diversity in Corporate Governance across Multinational Pharma.”
Through her doctoral studies Ms. Carrillo has received numerous awards, most recently the prestigious Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and the multi-year Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. She is currently conducting ethnographic research for her dissertation titled, “Making Corporate Inclusivity: Discrimination and Expertise in Post-Affirmative Action America.” She uses participant observation data, metric analyses, and interviews to examine how diversity and inclusion is made into business models by drawing from lived experiences.
Ms. Carrillo received her M.A. degree in Anthropology from UC Irvine, and graduated from UC Berkeley as a Ronald E. McNair Scholar with degrees in Anthropology and Integrative Biology.