Lilia Luciano

Lilia Luciano is an award-winning national correspondent and anchor at CBS News. She is a documentary film director, producer, podcaster, and speaker. Luciano was the only U.S. network correspondent on the ground in Venezuela covering the 2024 election and the violent protests that followed. She has led major breaking international stories for CBS News, including coverage from Israel on the fall of 2023 of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and the release of the first Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, as well as the assassination of Presidential Candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito, Ecuador.

Nationally, she covers immigration, politics, violence, and major breaking news stories, including the anti-war protests across college campuses, and recently earned an Emmy nomination for her 2-year-long coverage of the mass shooting at Rob Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.

Luciano is the director and producer of Wars of Others, an HBO documentary film about the consequences of the war on drugs in Colombia. She has also directed and hosted the CBS News documentaries, Fighting for Paradise: The Future of Puerto Rico and Guns in the Classroom.

She is the host and executive producer of iHeart Radio’s multiple award-winning podcast El Flow with Lilia Luciano about the history of reggaetón. For CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Mornings, and along her career she has exclusively profiled artists and newsmakers from Karol G, Maluma, and Shakira, to Jimmy Chin, Rita Moreno and Angela Davis.

Besides CBS News, she also contributes to CBS’s international partners, including BBC, Caracol, TeleFe, Azteca, Chilevision, Ecuavisa, Venevision, and Wapa.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Luciano speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese and French. She graduated from the University of Miami with degrees in economics and broadcast journalism.

Luciano joined the Dialogue as a Member in 2024.