Lilia Luciano is an award-winning investigative journalist, documentary film director, producer and public speaker. Lilia has a unique style of reporting that was developed over a decade of video storytelling.
In 2018, her documentary 'Puerto Rico Rises,' which she directed and produced for ABC Sacramento, earned her a regional Emmy Award. Her coverage of the Northern California Wildfires of 2018 received a regional Emmy and an Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Coverage. In 2013 Lilia was also awarded a GLAAD award for her coverage of homophobia in U.S. Hispanic media.
She is the director and producer of 'Wars of Others,' an HBO Latino film about the social, environmental, health and security consequences of the war on drugs in Colombia. She also worked as a host on several VICE platforms, including VICE News, VICELAND and Munchies. She is the founder of CoInspire, a video and event platform that explores values of entrepreneurship.
Lilia sits on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign to promote access to quality education and the well-being of girls worldwide. She has been a speaker and moderator at multiple tech conferences around the world, including The Oslo Freedom Forum, TEDx, Nexus Global Youth Summit, SIME and Reinvention.
As a national NBC News correspondent, reporting in both English and Spanish, Lilia led coverage of a number of high-profile news stories and reported for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC, The Weather Channel, CNBC and Telemundo.
Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Lilia is fluent in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
She graduated from the University of Miami with degrees in Economics and Broadcast Journalism. She previously attended Tufts University until 2003, when she made her transition from pre-med studies to journalism.
For more on Lilia visit www.LiliaLuciano.com and follow her @LiliaLuciano.