Lilian Manansala

Lilian Manansala is a Los Angeles-based video journalist, producer, and writer reporting on news, politics, business, culture, and the environment.

She currently works on the News and Documentary team at Business Insider. Accepted into the UP Mentorship program in 2024, she was mentored by New York Times Live Team Desk Editor Julie Bloom. In the fall, she joined the Gold House Journalism Accelerator's second-ever cohort.

She was a 2022 finalist for the L.A. Press Club Awards in the educational reporting category. The piece, "Getting Paid Less to Do the World’s Most Important Job," was published by the award-winning publication Capital Main as part of "The 50-100 Pay Gap," a series on income inequality in the US. She was a member of the first cohort of the Vox Media Writer's Workshop in Summer 2021 and one of 12 journalists chosen for the 2022 Data Institute sponsored by OpenNews, ProPublica, and the Ida B. Wells Society.

Her work as a choreographer and performer complements her work as a visual storyteller. A 2023 Emmy-nominated choreographer for her work on Disney Channel's Bunk'd, Lilian has worked on over 20 television shows.

She received her Master's in Journalism at New York University and an MSc in Epistemology, Ethics and Mind at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include social epistemology, applied ethics, political philosophy, social ontology, experimental philosophy, feminist philosophy, and the neuroscience of power and charisma.

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Lilian Manansala

Lilian is currently a Videographer & Editor at Insider for the News & Documentary Team. She was one of 30 participants selected out of 500 applications for the first cohort of the Vox Media Writer's Workshop for Summer 2021. She was one of 12 journalists chosen for the 2022 Data Institute sponsored by OpenNews, ProPublica, and the Ida B. Wells Society. She received her Master's in Journalism at New York University and graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures. Lilian was the Social Media Editor and a staff reporter for The Click News at NYU. She is currently an MSc candidate in Epistemology, Ethics and Mind at the University of Edinburgh.

Lilian is a Los Angeles-based video journalist and writer reporting on the intersections of politics, sociology, gender, and human rights. Her commitment to upholding the rights of the vulnerable and underrepresented tracks a common theme in her work: whether she is teaching and empowering dancers and artists from age 5 to young adults, in creating safe spaces in an audition room and casting process, to the goal of writing as a means of protecting democracy and promoting social justice.

As a professional choreographer and performer, she has worked for and appeared in television shows for Netflix, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, ABC, Disney, XD, The Comedy Network, Disney Jr., and Freeform. She has choreographed for over 20 productions, including Raven’s Home, Pretty Little Liars, Bunk’d, and Bizaardvark and has worked with Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Raven Symone, Keke Palmer, and Vanessa Hudgens. Lilian has taught all over the nation for dance workshops and conventions, and her short dance film, #88, has been featured in over 20 international film festivals and won Best Music Video at the Mobile Motion Film Festival 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland.