Lilliana leads the Resilience, Impact, Sustainability, and Empowerment (RISE) Sub-Division for the Maricopa County Dept. of Public Health. She is tasked with bringing together healthcare, academic, and community partners to address community needs and social determinants of health. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She is the daughter of migrant farm workers and grew up in rural Yuma County, Arizona. Throughout her 20+ years in social services and public health, she has worked on a variety of issues related to social justice, health equity, and access to care from rural Arizona to inner-city Chicago. Career highlights include the creation of the Emergency Stock Epinephrine program for Chicago Public Schools in 2011; Maricopa County regionalization efforts and the development of the Public Health Liaison program; management of MCDPH's efforts in large scale impact and funding through CDC's Health Disparities funding; and the 2023 Model Practice Award for healthcare & community partnerships to support the community health needs assessment and improvement planning. Her goals are to ensure that the work RISE contributes to MCDPH will provide representative community-informed assessments and data collection efforts; mobilize for equitable & accessible decision-making; and collaborate in the creation of community lead solutions.