Researching Lilia Luciano

In 2019, she was awarded a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism as a special commendation for enterprise for her four-part documentary series, Puerto Rico Rises, which she directed and produced for ABC Sacramento, a TEGNA station. She has also won five Regional Emmy Awards. In 2018 her coverage of the Northern California Wildfires of 2018 received a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Coverage. Luciano has won four Regional Emmy Awards. In 2019, she won the Emmy for her special TEGNA series "Crisis at the Border," and for her team's coverage of the Northern California Wildfires. In 2018, she won for California Wildfires coverage and for her documentary Puerto Rico Rises. In 2013, Luciano was also awarded GLAAD's Outstanding Digital Journalism Article media award for her coverage of homophobia in U.S. Hispanic media.

Luciano is the investigative reporter at ABC 10 in Sacramento, California. She is the director and producer of Wars of Others, an HBO Latino documentary film about the consequences of the U.S. War on Drugs on Colombian farmers and the founder of CoInspire, an interview series about entrepreneurship in partnership with Rokk3r Labs. She has worked as a host and contributor at various Vice platforms in English and Spanish. Previously, she worked as a national news correspondent for NBC News's The Today Show, Nightly News with Brian Williams and MSNBC. She is a TEDx speaker and contributing columnist for Huffington Post writing both in English and Spanish about issues concerning the Hispanic community, the War on Drugs and Human Rights. She servers the advisory council of United Nations Foundation's Girl Up initiative. She has served as a moderator at the Oslo Freedom Forum Human Rights conferences since 2016.