Lilia Luciano

About

Lilia Luciano is an award-winning investigative journalist, documentary film director, producer, and public speaker. Luciano has a unique style of reporting that was developed over a decade of video storytelling.Her documentary Puerto Rico Rises, which she directed and produced for ABC Sacramento, earned her a Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in journalism in 2019 as well as 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.As the chief investigative correspondent of Border Live on Discovery Channel, she gathered and told stories of people who live, work and survive along the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2013 Luciano 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.Luciano 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 conferences around the world, including The Oslo Freedom Forum, TEDx, Nexus Global Youth Summit, DENT and SIME.As a national NBC News correspondent, reporting in both English and Spanish, Luciano 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, Luciano 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.