Liliana Macias is an educator, cultural worker, and scholar. As an educator she has formal teaching experience in higher education and K-12, curriculum development, and professional development for educators. She previously held a lecture position at Northeastern Illinois University in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies department. As a cultural worker, she has developed and managed education initiatives for museums and cultural centers, advised and led exhibition curation, and developed public engagement programs. She provides contract work to support local cultural institutions and events through strategic planning and community centered program development models. In 2023, the department of cultural affairs for the city of Chicago launched the monuments projects to memorialize lesser known histories of the city, Liliana led a series of public programs for the monument project titled Pilsen Latina Legacies that honored the advocacy work of Latinas in Pilsen. She co-developed the Latine LGBTQ+ Leadership Institute for the organization ALMA to support the development of queer Latine leaders of Chicago. Liliana is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Illinois Chicago studying the cartographic histories of queer Latine Chicago.