Lisa Watkins-Victorino, Ph.D. is OHA’s Research Director (Ka Pou Kihi Kane). She was appointed in April 2012. Her responsibilities include collecting reliable data critical to the OHA’s ability to engage the Hawaiʻi Legislature and others in the organization’s work. Her staff conducts and shares research intended to guide decisions and ensure that OHA’s efforts are based on solid information. She came to OHA from the Department of Education, where she was an educational officer/evaluation assistant in the agency’s Systems Evaluation and Reporting Section. Before that, she was a junior specialist/program assistant with the University of Hawai‘i’s Social Welfare Evaluation and Research Unit. In addition, she was a lecturer at the University of Hawai‘i’s School of Social Work.
