Lisa Rice is an experienced education and youth development leader with more than 30 years of experience leading programs, building partnerships, and strengthening quality improvement systems. She currently serves as the Director of Quality Improvement at the Forum for Youth Investment, where she leads a team responsible for continuous quality improvement, professional learning, coaching, and implementation support. Her work focuses on helping youth-serving organizations build practical, sustainable approaches to improving program quality and creating better experiences for young people. 

Before joining the Forum, Lisa served as a Quality Business Partner for Champions, part of KinderCare Learning Companies, where she helped develop and implement a nationwide quality improvement system supporting approximately 800 before- and afterschool programs. She also designed professional learning experiences for thousands of educators and program leaders. Earlier in her career, she served as Executive Director of the Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence, where she built statewide partnerships, advocated for afterschool and summer programs, and helped initiate a statewide quality improvement system. She also founded Innovative Learning Solutions, providing training, coaching, and consulting to schools, nonprofits, and community organizations. 

Having spent much of her career both leading programs and helping others improve them, Lisa brings a practical understanding of the challenges educators and program leaders face every day. She believes effective quality improvement systems should support the people doing the work, not create more work for them. A graduate of Northern Arizona University with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, Lisa brings together her experience in program operations, organizational leadership, and quality improvement to help organizations turn what they learn into meaningful changes for young people.