MS. LILY LIU

Lily Liu is a corporate communications professional with expertise in public outreach and specializes in corporate storytelling. For more than two decades, Lily worked at AARP, most recently serving as AARP’s Corporate Story Brand Manager. Prior to that, she was AARP’s historian and archivist — collecting, preserving, and storytelling about the history of the Association.

The majority of Lily’s career at AARP was spent in AARP’s Communications Group, including positions as a Speechwriter for the Executive Director/CEO and the National Board of Directors.

In subsequent positions at AARP, Lily served as the award-winning editor of Inside AARP, the staff newsletter, and as the Volunteer Resource Education Specialist in the AARP Volunteer Center. She co-founded AARP’s Asian-American Employee Resource Group (ERG), a staff affinity group. This ERG, which Lily chaired for over a decade, won the 1999 AARP Executive Director’s Award in the category of diversity and inclusion.

In early 2016, Lily was interviewed for the AARP documentary about three Chinese-American family caregivers, “Caregiving: The Circle of Love.” As a long-term family caregiver for her mother, she has participated in outreach events around the country to share her story and highlight how a family caregiver has an impact on a woman’s physical and mental health, finances, employment and retirement.

Lily is the daughter of two retired educators originally from China. She immigrated to the U.S. when she was six. She pursued undergraduate studies at Smith College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and graduate studies at Princeton University. She is fluent in speaking Mandarin Chinese and has had her translations of the essays of contemporary Chinese women writers published in journals in the U.S. and Asia.