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Lisa Cisneros
Executive Director, Internal Communications
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Lisa Cisneros, executive director of Internal Communications in the Office of Communications, leads a network of communicators across UCSF, provides communications counsel to senior leadership, and develops and implements communications plans for major projects and initiatives at UC San Francisco.
She leads internally focused communications campaigns with a team that produces the Pulse e-newsletter, covers campus news and organizes both online and in-person events, including the monthly UCSF town halls and the annual Chancellor's State of the University address. Cisneros was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Exceptional University Service in 2021 for her ongoing efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and her leadership in communicating UCSF's response during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also received the UCSF Founders' Champion Award in recognition of her many contributions to advance DEI from the Vice Chancellor of Office of Diversity and Outreach in 2016.
A member of the UCSF community since 1994, Cisneros has served in a variety of communications roles at UCSF, such as senior director of Strategic Communications and editor-in-chief of UCSF's website. Prior to joining UCSF, Cisneros worked as a newspaper journalist, covering education, health care, sports, lifestyle and city government.
She holds a BA degree in Broadcast Communications and a minor degree in Print Journalism from San Francisco State University. Cisneros has been trained in project management and leadership at Stanford University and in emergency management response by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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