Lily serves as the Deputy Director of the Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program based at Howard University. Previously, she worked as a manager at Diversity Abroad where she managed the Diversity Abroad Network, a professional network of institutions of higher education, and oversaw the development of the Access, Inclusion, and Diversity in international Education (AID) roadmap, the first assessment tool developed to evaluate diversity and inclusion efforts in study abroad offices at U.S. institutions. Lily serves as a Co-Chair of the Global Access Pipeline and has helped coordinate the conference on Diversity in International Affairs sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a graduate of the University of Washington, where she earned her bachelor's in International Relations and master's in Public Administration. While in Seattle, she was heavily involved in the Seattle community organizing events and working for community and youth serving organizations. During her time at UNCP Special Programs Corporation, she managed an internationally-focused fellowship for undergraduate students (Institute for International Public Policy) and worked with minority-serving institutions on capacity building efforts related to campus internationalization and grant management. She is deeply committed to equalizing access to education and increasing opportunities for young people to gain international credentials. She is also an advanced doctoral student at George Mason University where she is completing research for her dissertation, which focuses on college student's goals and perceived changes in self-efficacy as a result of participating in an education abroad program. Lily is bilingual in English and Spanish and has traveled through Latin America and Western Europe.