Dr. Latrissa Lee Neiworth

Education
Doctor of Education
Emphasis: Organizational Leadership
Graduate School of Education & Psychology
Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA

Master of Arts in Education;
Emphasis: Curriculum & Teaching
Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, CA

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism; Minor: Economics
College of Liberal Arts
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Biography
Dr. Latrissa Lee Neiworth is a renowned educator, researcher, and leadership advocate with over 25 years of experience in education and liberal arts disciplines. She is also a Qualified Administrator (QA) of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) which helps to assess individual and group intercultural development. She served previously at WPU as an adjunct instructor, faculty member, assistant professor, associate professor and Dean of Business.

Prior to serving at Warner Pacific University, Dr. Neiworth served as the Dean of the College of Professional Studies at Bushnell University, in Eugene, OR, which included the School of Education and the School of Business, Leadership & Technology. She has also served at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA as a clinical instructor and coordinator of the six-state Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. In addition, she has been a senior methodologist for doctoral programs at Grand Canyon University and a senior contributing faculty member at Pepperdine University and Walden University in Disseration Research.

Research Interests
Dr. Neiworth’s areas of expertise include organizational leadership, education, intercultural development, resilience, adversity, women’s leadership, and writing in various forms. She is the author of several book chapters, a number of peer-reviewed research articles, published journalism pieces, numerous documentaries, and hundreds of broadcast news scripts.

Awards & Honors
Dr. Neiworth has been named one of the Top Visionaries in Education at the International Global Forum for Education and Learning. In 2025, she earned the Rita Turner Award at Walden University for supporting the doctoral student with the best Dissertation published. She has earned an Emmy nomination for best docujmentary script, a National Telly Award, and the Western Heritage Award for Best Documentary.

Community Service

Dr. Neiworth was recently named by Governor Tina Kotek and confirmed by the State Senate to a three-year term at the Oregon Serves Commission, a Board of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. Oregon Serves helps raise awareness to increase resources and programs that meet needs in education, environmental stewardship, emergency response, community capacity and resiliency, economic opportunity, workforce development, civic and community engagement, service learning, and senior and veteran services.  She also serves as the Region 7 Vice President of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) and is a reviewer for the peer-reviewed academic journal Journal for Advancing Business Education.

Select Publications

Charting a course to competency: An approach to mapping public health core competencies to existing trainings
LL Neiworth, S Allan, L D’Ambrosio, M Coplen-Abrahamson. Health promotion practice 15 (1_suppl), 33S-38S

From adversity to leadership: US women who pursued leadership development despite the odds
LL Neiworth, Pepperdine University

Cultivating a global mindset in the preparation of leaders: Intercultural sensitivity inventory
J Schmieder-Ramirez, L Neiworth, EDULEARN13 Proceedings, 6352-6358

DISSERTATION RESCUE AND FLEX CHAIR MENTORING FOR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INCLUSION
LL Neiworth, EDULEARN23 Proceedings, 4038-4042

OVERCOMING BARRIERS TO LEARNING THROUGH LEADERSHIP: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK BUILT FROM AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES OF US WOMEN
L Neiworth, INTED2019 Proceedings, 7584-7592

ADVERSITY AGILITY: HOW SOME US WOMEN NAVIGATED SIGNIFICANT OBSTACLES TO PURSUE LEADERSHIP
DRLLEE NEIWORTH, Women in Leadership and Work-Family Integration Volume Two: A Woman’s …

CALLED TO LEAD: A LOOK AT THE EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS OF DOCTORAL LEVEL GRADUATES IN RECOGNIZED ED. D. LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS
L Neiworth, J Schmieder-Ramirez, EDULEARN14 Proceedings, 608-617

Connecting Curricula to the Learning Preferences of the Net Generation
LL Neiworth
Fresno Pacific University