Krizia Lopez

Krizia Rosario Lopez is the Workforce Innovation Lead at the City of St. Louis via the Bloomberg Harvard City Hall Fellowship, where she is building a holistic strategy to address city workforce shortages. She led a multi-million dollar modernization effort at the Department of Personnel that shifted the hiring process from typewriters and paper forms to the city's first digital HR system and cloud-based jobs portal. Now Krizia is leading St. Louis' overall workforce development strategy to strengthen the city's economic competitiveness amid future-looking skill demand shifts.

Krizia builty her early career at Google for six years in international roles in Marketing, Strategy and Operations, and Skills Training. She earned her Master in Public Administration from Harvard '23, where she served as editor-in-chief of the Kennedy School Review and taught negotiation courses.

Previously, she also led operations at a public school in NYC and founded a workforce development program for low-income youth. Krizia graduated with a BA from Columbia University and was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Nicaragua. She speaks German, Spanish, and Chinese and comes from a multicultural family.