Lydia Buki, PhD

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Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
188G Education Building, MC-708
1310 South Sixth Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: (217) 265-5491
Fax: (217) 244-7620
E-mail: buki@uiuc.edu

Dr. Lydia P. Buki grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She obtained a Master's degree in Psychology at the California State University, Sacramento, and a Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. She is currently a faculty member in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois. She recently received the National Latino/a Psychological Association's Distinguished Professional Early Career Award.

In the area of women's health, she directed an early detection of breast and cervical cancer project for midlife and older Latinas while Director of Programs at the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCoA). Also while at the NHCoA, she spearheaded the Coalition for Hispanic Women's Health in the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Area. Subsequently, Dr. Buki coordinated mental health services and co-facilitated a Latina breast cancer support group for the only network of Latina breast cancer survivors in the DC Area, Programa Nueva Vida. She now serves on Nueva Vida's board of directors, is a member of the DHHS OWH Minority Women's Health Panel of Experts, is on the national advisory committee for the Susan G. Komen Foundation Clinical Trials Initiatives, and is a member of the American Psychological Association Inter-Divisional Task Force on Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families.

Content last updated September 19, 2008.