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Lillian Comas-Díaz
Psychologist and Professor
Lillian Comas-Díaz is an American psychologist and researcher of multiethnic and multicultural communities.
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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