Lisa Garcia Quiroz

Lisa Garcia Quiroz
Born(1961-01-10)January 10, 1961
DiedMarch 16, 2018(2018-03-16) (aged 57)
Alma materHarvard, B.A.
Harvard Business School M.B.A. 1990
OccupationMedia executive
Years active23 years
EmployerTime Warner
SpouseGuy Garcia
AwardsCrain's NY Business 100 Most Powerful Minority Business Leaders
Hispanic Heritage Award 2002
Hispanic Scholarship Alumni Hall of Fame

Lisa Garcia Quiroz (January 10, 1961 – March 16, 2018) was an American business executive at Time Warner who oversaw its charitable foundation and philanthropic activity and corporate responsibility departments. She served as the media enterprise's first chief diversity officer and founder of the content incubator OneFifty. Quiroz also served as president of the Time Warner Foundation.

Quiroz created and launched Time Inc.'s People en Español, 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 served 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.