Lia currently serves as the Campaigns & Communications Director for Fight for the Future, the queer women- and artist- led organization behind the largest online protests in history. In campaigns, Lia focuses on the right to privacy, defending cultural preservation and community-run alternatives to Big Tech, and restoring the dignity of artistic labor.

Increasingly, Lia’s work unites the threads of story and activism, such as in the Stop Copaganda Project, a collaboration with RightsCon & Strange Horizons or their salon series with Amnesty USA, Emerging Tech for Activists. They speak in diverse venues from DragonCon to Model UN to Consensus, and their work is featured by dozens of major news outlets and in prestigious publications from institutions including UNESCO.

From age fifteen, Lia worked and volunteered with an array of community institutions while participating in eco-defense, anti-war, and LGBTQ+ organizing. This work led Lia to a 13-year career in the upper echelons of the music industry—inciting a sense of belonging and inspiration in hundreds of thousands of people by pairing activism and social good with artist & festival brands. The success of this work helped them recognize and move toward their strengths in writing and organizing.

Growing up in the rural Cascade foothills, Lia gained a lifelong love for the Pacific Northwest and that’s where they now focus on advocacy while expanding as an artist in their own right. As a member of the LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, and abuse survivor communities, Lia is particularly jazzed to be crafting novels and short stories just like they wanted to as a kid, working with an intimate critique group of published authors that would make any child-self proud. Lia alternates days at the laptop with adventures to the forests, mountains, and beaches they’ll never get enough of. They can make a pretty deadly huckleberry pie, too.