Georgia Ann Lazo

Moore Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095

P: (310) 210-5180

Curriculum Vitae

Georgia Ann Lazo

Associate Dean, University Partnership Schools at UCLA

Dr. Georgia Ann Lazo is the new Associate Dean of University Partnership Schools. Dr. Lazo has extensive experience working with school principals and school site leaders. Before joining UCLA full time in 2018 as the Principal of UCLA Lab School, Dr. Lazo served as a Director of Instruction for LAUSD, supervising and coaching 15 principals and overseeing school curricular programs for more than 10,000 students, including courses in STEM, Dual Language, Linked Learning and Visual and Performing Arts. She has worked as an administrator of school counseling services and is the founding principal of the UCLA Community School, a unique partnership between LAUSD and UCLA. Dr. Lazo has been a co-instructor in the Principal Leadership Institute since 2011. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering to provide educational activities for youth at a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Lazo also enjoys reading, running, dancing and baking.

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Expertise

Titles and Positions

  • Associate Dean, University Partnership Schools

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

  • Recipient, International Mind, Brain and Education Prize, Erice, Italy (2018) “Serving Migrant and Refugee Students and Families”.
  • Recipient, Mujer Destacada Award in Education, Los Angeles, CA (2012).
  • La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language newspaper in the US and second-most read newspaper in Los Angeles, recognizes public service accomplishments of outstanding “destacada” Latinas in Leadership, Health & Education, and Arts & Culture.

Education

  • Doctor of Education (2017), University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Master of Education (2004), University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Master of Arts Degree, Clinical Psychology (2000), Pepperdine University, Culver City, CA
  • Bachelor of Arts Degree, English (1989), University of California, Irvine, CA
  • Negotiation Mastery Certification (2023), E-Cornell University

Select Publications

  • (2020) Reopening Our Schools: From the Eyes of Our Children and Educators, Authored Practitioner Brief