Lilia Luciano- The Other Side of Filmmaking With A Documentary Film Director & Investigative Journalist

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. 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.  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 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 until  2003, when she made her transition from pre-med studies to journalism.