Linda Oubré

Linda Oubré is an American academic administrator who served as president of Whittier College from 2018 to 2023.

Oubré grew up in Los Angeles and was a first-generation college student whose grandparents did not finish elementary school, but were labor and civil rights activists.

[3] After college she worked for a commercial bank[4] before earning an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1984, and an Ed.D.

[6] In 2003, Oubré was an executive in residence at the University of California, Davis,[6] and she returned in 2011 to work in corporate relations, business development, and was the chief diversity officer for the Graduate School of Management.

[10] In 2012, Oubré moved to San Francisco State University where she was the Dean of the College of Business.