Lily Liu is AARP’s Historian Emerita. In 2015, she took a hiatus from the workplace in order to handle full-time responsibilities as her mother’s family caregiver. Prior to that, Lily worked at AARP, most recently serving as AARP’s historian and archivist — collecting, preserving and storytelling about the history of AARP. She conducted oral-history interviews and also made speeches around the country about the founder of the Association. The majority of Lily’s career at AARP was spent in AARP’s Communications Group, including positions as a Speechwriter for the Executive Director/CEO and the Board of Directors. She was the Lead Speechwriter for AARP’s first African-American National volunteer President, Dr. Margaret Dixon, a retired educator. In subsequent positions at AARP, Lily served as the award-winning editor of Inside AARP, the staff newsletter, and as the Volunteer Resource Education Specialist in the AARP Volunteer Center.  She co-founded AARP’s Asian-American Employee Resource Group, a staff affinity group. In early 2016, Lily was interviewed for the AARP documentary about three Chinese-American family caregivers, “Caregiving:  The Circle of Love.”  She has participated in outreach events around the country to share her personal family caregiver story. Lily is the daughter of two retired educators originally from China. She immigrated to the U.S. when she was six. Her academic training is in English Literature and Comparative Literature (English and French).  She is fluent in speaking Mandarin Chinese and has had her translations of the essays of contemporary Chinese women writers published in journals in the U.S. and Asia.