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Lillian Comas-Díaz
Psychologist and Professor
Lillian Comas-Díaz is an American psychologist and researcher of multiethnic and multicultural communities.
She was the 2019 winner of American Psychological Association (APA) Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Practice of Psychology.[1] In 2000, she received the APA Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contribution to the Public Interest.[2]
Biography
Lillian Comas-Díaz was born in Chicago, Illinois, though at the age of six she moved to Puerto Rico, where both her parents are from.[3] They relocated to Yabucoa, which had been recently devastated by a hurricane.
In consoling her classmates, she discovered an interest in psychology and healing.[4] She continued to live in Puerto Rico until she was in her twenties.[5] She cites these times of her upbringing as formative to her decision to become a psychologist.
After earning her MA she moved to Connecticut, where she d