Lisa Higgins-Hord

Assistant Vice President, UK Community Engagement

Lisa Higgins-Hord is currently the Assistant Vice President for Community Engagement at the University of Kentucky and supervises the Office of Lifelong Learning which serves students over 50 years of age taking academic and extracurricular courses at the university. In her role at UK, she develops, implements, and assesses significant community-based projects that create robust partnerships between the University community (faculty, students and staff) and local, state and regional constituencies. She is also a partner of the Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Consortium at the University of Kentucky which provides training, access and opportunities for faculty and their classes regarding community projects.

 Lisa is a former City Councilwoman for District 6 in Lexington, Kentucky. She is also active in many state and local activities. Currently, Lisa serves on the UK Equitable Economic Development Committee, appointed to the 250LEX Commission and serves as the Treasurer, Bank of the Bluegrass & Trust Board and serves as Corporate Governance Chair, the Board of the Blue Grass Community Foundation, and serves as a Co-Chair of the Lexington Black Prosperity Initiative. She is the immediate past chair of the Carnegie Center for Literacy Board,

 Lisa was born in Harlan County, Kentucky and raised in Lexington. Lisa continued her education at the University of Kentucky where she received her Bachelor’s and a Master's Degree. Lisa is a graduate of the Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement’s Academy for Leaders at Virginia Tech. She is the proud mom to an adult daughter who is a women’s professional volleyball player.