Recently, Ms. Molina inaugurated the Environmental Justice Director position at Energy Action Coalition, the Hub of the Youth Climate Movement. While there, she supported the development of a shared leadership model between the sons and daughters of the Environmental Justice Movement and the sons and daughters of the Main-Stream Environmental Movement as they collaborated to build a strong, diverse and inclusive Climate Movement. During her 3.5 year tenure at EAC, Ms. Molina wove social justice and equity into the programmatic and campaign work of the coalition: she organized the Frontline Community Leadership training at Power Shift 2011 with more than 350 young people from directly impacted communities, coordinated the launch of the Frontline Environmental Justice Fellowship and worked closely with the EPA to develop opportunities for more youth engagement in the federal decision making process.   Her partnerships with the EPA lead to an historic youth Environmental Justice meeting with members of 10 of the 17 government agencies from the Inter-Agency Workgroup on Environmental Justice in 2012. Her work at EAC was instrumental in engaging Environmental Justice communities to shape the national and international youth climate movement agenda by providing resources, support and opportunities to challenge the cultural and ethnic homogeny of the environmental and climate movement.

Before joining the Energy Action Coalition, she worked as the Youth Coordinator for the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) where she organized in and around her community to advocate for a better quality of life for community members and worked with local community residents to develop just and equitable transition plans for a local deep green economy.  At LVEJO, she implemented a three-year environmental justice youth leadership project through the Funder’s Collaborative for Youth Organizing (FCYO), expanding youth participation in the fight against shuttering the Crawford and Fisk Coal plants.   She worked closely with all the campaign organizers at LVEJO to ensure Environmental Justice for the 100,000 plus residents of the Little Village community, the second largest Mexican American Community outside of LA, and residents of the broader Chicago-land area.

Lilian has a B.A in Bilingual/Bi-cultural Education and intends to pursue a graduate degree in Urban Education Policy and Environmental Public Health to research the effects of overexposure to environmental hazards on learning and behavior.