Lili Santiago-Silva is an arts management consultant with over 30 years of fundraising and management experience for non-profits. Ms. Santiago-Silva was formerly the Theater Development Manager of Teatro Heckscher of El Museo del Barrio and was responsible for programming at the theatre, as well as producing the Three Kings Day Parade and the Budweiser Summer Nights music festival. 

Lili was Assistant Director of the Children’s Special String Program at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico and taught Drawing, Art and Theatre Appreciation at the Interamerican University in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. She managed the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as programming for the Teton Music Festival in Wyoming. 

Lili has lived in New York City since 1986, working at INTAR, Thalia Spanish Theatre, the Puerto Rican Family Institute, El Museo del Barrio, Taller Boricua, and CENTRO: Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. In 2007, she was honored by the Yonkers Puerto Rican Day Parade for her work in the promotion of Hispanic arts and worked as a consultant (researcher and analyst) for the governance portion of a project for the possible establishment of the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, DC (as part of the Smithsonian Institute) which is now becoming a reality. Ms. Santiago-Silva holds a Master of Arts Degree in Theatre from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.