Dr. Lisa Braverman is the Dean and CEO of the CUNY School of Professional Studies. She previously served as assistant vice president at Mercy College and as vice provost at Excelsior College. She also served as dean of the Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies at Fairleigh Dickinson University, chief academic officer at the online Jones International University, associate provost for adult programs at Long Island University, dean of continuing and professional studies at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology, and dean of extended education at NY Institute of Technology.

Braverman is certified by the Institute for Engaged Leadership in Online Learning of the Online Learning Consortium, where she served as lead moderator. In 2021, she was honored to receive the annual Leadership Award from ACHE, reserved for outstanding leaders and pioneers in the field of continuing higher education. Braverman is a consultant and published author with a recent submission on PLA in the recently published New Models of Higher Education: Unbundled, Customized, DIY, a chapter published on blended completion programs in the Handbook of Research on Growing, Building, Sustaining Quality E-Learning Programs, several online articles and interviews, and two journal articles in the Journal of Continuing Higher Education, as well as a chapter on the future of continuing higher education in New Horizons published by Jossey Bass.

Braverman has studied executive education at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from New York University, and is regularly invited to give presentations and moderate panels on transformative leadership, innovation, online learning, and entrepreneurship in higher education. Having lived and studied in Peru as an undergraduate student, Braverman is bilingual and currently resides on Long Island with her son, a graduate student at Stanford University.