Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz

Executive Producer, Death, Sex & Money

Born in Cali, Colombia, Liliana Maria Percy Ruiz — or Lily Percy as she also goes by in the U.S. — immigrated to Miami with her family at the age of four. She has worked as an associate editor at MovieMaker magazine, and as a producer for StoryCorps and NPR’s “All Things Considered” on the weekends, where she produced the series “Movies I’ve Seen A Million Times.” In 2012, she received the Religion Newswriters Association Radio/Podcast Religion Report of the Year Award for her profile of four Roman Catholic Womenpriests.

Liliana Maria was one of the founding team of four of the On Being Project, where she was the Executive Producer of On Being Studios, and produced the national public radio show and podcast, On Being with Krista Tippett, as well as co-created the podcasts Poetry Unbound and This Movie Changed Me, which she also hosted. Before joining the Death, Sex & Money team, Liliana Maria was the Head of Production at Gimlet Media, a part of Spotify Studios. Liliana Maria lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota where she watches way too many movies and consumes way too many limes.