Lidia Ortiz Zamora ’17 Receives 2025 Rising Star Award from National Association for Institutional Research

Lidia Ortiz Zamora ’17, an equity and inclusion analyst in Smith’s Institutional Research Department, is the recipient of a 2025 Rising Star Award from the National Association for Institutional Research. Ortiz, who earned her Smith degree in economics and psychology, and a master of science degree from Carnegie Mellon University, has worked on Smith’s Racial Justice Action plan. She is a founding member of the Consortium on Financing in Higher Education’s Early Career IR Group, which won that organization’s Joseph R. Pettit Award this past spring.