Lilia Luciano is an award-winning journalist, documentary film director, producer, podcaster, and speaker. As a national CBS News correspondent, she has led coverage of major stories including immigration and drug policy at the U.S. Mexico Border with Texas, California, and Arizona, the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion rights, teen suicide, the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, the Astroworld mass casualty event in Houston, the capital case of Melissa Lucio, the historic Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon, multiple wildfires in California, the record-breaking series of tornadoes in Kentucky, among many others.  

Her features for CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Mornings, and CBS Evening News include profiles on Angela Davis, Jimmy Chin, Rita Moreno, and Latinx Art in New York’s El Museo del Barrio. She is also the host and executive producer of iHeart Radio’s El Flow podcast.  

Luciano's stories appear on CBS News platforms, including CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell, CBS Mornings, Sunday Morning, the CBS News Streaming network, which she often anchors, and CBS News Radio. Luciano wrote, produced, and hosted the CBSN Originals documentary, Fighting for Paradise: The Future of Puerto Rico. She has a unique style of reporting that was developed over more than a decade of video storytelling. 

She won a Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in journalism, as well as a regional Emmy Award for Puerto Rico Rises, which she directed and produced for ABC 10 in Sacramento. Her work on the U.S. Mexico border also earned her an Emmy Award and her coverage of the Northern California Wildfires has received regional Emmys two years in a row as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award. 

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 the values of entrepreneurship. In 2018 she was the chief investigative correspondent for Discovery Channel's Border Live telling immersive stories about the people who live, work and survive along the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Luciano sits on the Emeritus 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 tech conferences around the world, including The Oslo Freedom Forum, The Girl Up Leadership Summit, The Visionaries Summit, TEDx, Nexus Global Youth Summit, SIME, Dent, and more. 

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. Luciano started her career at Univision Networks as an entertainment anchor and correspondent, hosting and producing content for various network platforms, including the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. 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.