A chronicler of the Filipino experience in America, Lott has authored several popular and scholarly works on Asian Americans.
[citation needed] Trained as a statistician and demographer, she spent her career as a policy analyst for the federal government.
[3] Lott's father, Lazaro Lorenza Tamayo, had moved to San Francisco from the Philippines in 1922 as a Filipino national.
Lott attended San Francisco State College and participated in the 1968 Third World Liberation Front Strikes, which resulted in the establishment of the School of Ethnic Studies.
[9] In addition to a number of reports, articles, conference proceedings, and government studies and publications, Lott authored the following books: