Career Stories

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