Liza Hita

Liza Hita is a clinical associate professor of psychology in the New College of Integrated Arts and Sciences and an affiliated scientist with the Research and Education Advancing Children's Health (REACH) Institute. She has also served as a Dean's Fellow for New College, the Director of Digital Innovation and Inclusion for the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Director of the digital-immersion Psychology BA/BS. She also serves on the New College Anti-Racism Council (NewARC) and as the faculty co-lead for the DEI Core of the Maternal Child Health Translational Research Team in the College of Health Solutions. Her administrative work has focused on the intersections of justice, transformation, and belonging using technology as a means of empowerment and community-building. She is currently a Universal Learner Fellow partnering in the wide-scale dissemination of multidimensional courses accessible to everyone beyond ASU and a Study Hall content creator, as well as a Senior Faculty Fellow with the Social Transformations Lab.

Liza engages in community-based participatory research focused on the dissemination and implementation of preventive interventions for families experiencing major life transitions, including high conflict families, separating and divorced parents, bereaved caregivers, and families impacted by incarceration. She also studies decolonial methodologies, smart technologies, and counselor training, integrating them into her current research and practice on the online administration and cultural resonance of evidence-based parenting interventions and creating sustainable community-embedded supervision models. 

Her community work focuses on bridging health disparities through culturally restorative, holistic practices.  She is a full spectrum doula sharing traditional prenatal, birthing, postpartum, and loss support and a student of Batok/Patik, which is the traditional art and healing practice of tattooing in the Philippines.