26 Facts About Lilia Luciano

Lilia Luciano was born on October 12,1984 and is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster and public speaker.

Lilia Luciano is currently a national correspondent at CBS News based in New York and host of the iHeart Radio podcast, El Flow.

In 2013, Luciano was awarded GLAAD's Outstanding Digital Journalism Article media award for her coverage of homophobia in US Hispanic media.

Lilia Luciano is the director and producer of Wars of Others, an HBO Latino documentary film about the consequences of the US War on Drugs on Colombian farmers and the founder of CoInspire, an interview series about entrepreneurship in partnership with Rokk3r Labs.

Lilia Luciano has worked as a host and contributor at various Vice platforms in English and Spanish.

Lilia Luciano is a TEDx speaker and contributing columnist for HuffPost writing both in English and Spanish about issues concerning the Hispanic community, the War on Drugs and Human Rights.

Lilia Luciano has served as a moderator at the Oslo Freedom Forum Human Rights conferences since 2016.

Lilia Luciano produced and hosted Fighting for Paradise: The Future of Puerto Rico, a CBS News documentary streaming on Paramount Plus and CBSN.

At VICELAND's Black Market Dispatches, Lilia Luciano embedded with a caravan of gasoline smugglers, hiding in a racing car filled with 400 gallons of contraband gasoline.

In 2018, Lilia Luciano was awarded a National Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism for her Documentary Puerto Rico Rises.

Lilia Luciano was a chief investigative correspondent for Discovery Channel's Border Live show, embedding in communities, and with border enforcement agencies along the US-Mexico border.

Lilia Luciano was TEGNA-owned ABC 10's investigative reporter, a position that earned her regional and national awards in journalism.

Lilia Luciano investigated politics, crime, family court, immigration, housing, education, homelessness, police shootings, drug policy, wildfires, and other climate disasters, including an award-winning documentary about Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

Lilia Luciano directed Guerras Ajenas, an HBO Latin America Documentary about the consequences of US drug policy in Colombia.

Lilia Luciano worked as a host for multiple Vice platforms, including Viceland's World of Sports, Black Market Dispatches and Vice News.

Lilia Luciano joined NBC News in December 2010 from Univision network where she served as co-host of a live daily program and as a correspondent for the top-rated show Aqui y Ahora.

Lilia Luciano went on to cover the storm's trail of devastation in North Carolina.

Lilia Luciano reported live from the Orange County courthouse throughout the six-week trial.

In January 2012, Lilia Luciano was the only national correspondent from the major networks covering the murder trial of Joran Van der Sloot in Lima, Peru for both Today Show, and Telemundo, obtaining exclusive interviews with the victim's family and government authorities in Lima.

On February 22,2012, Lilia Luciano reported for Today, MSNBC and Comcast Sports on the first degree murder trial of University of Virginia Lacrosse captain George Huguely, convicted in the death of his girlfriend Yeardly Love.

Lilia Luciano was one of the national television reporters on the scene in Sanford, Florida covering the Trayvon Martin story.

On December 6,2012, Lilia Luciano was named as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed against NBC by George Zimmerman regarding their erroneous edit and airing of his 911 call to advance a false narrative.

Since 2013, Lilia Luciano has served on the Advisory Board of the United Nations Foundation Girl Up Campaign.

Lilia Luciano is a Today I am Brave Speaker series.

Lilia Luciano is the director and producer of Guerras Ajenas, the first documentary film by HBO Latinoamerica.

Lilia Luciano previously married Luis Alayo, a Catalonian banker, on 28 December 2007.