Lianna is a native of New England with over a decade of experience across podcasting, broadcasting, production, and post-production. She has lived and worked in a variety of major media markets from coast to coast.

Since relocating to LA in 2020, Lianna has worked as a mixing and broadcast engineer for American Public Media, supporting the nationally broadcast radio programs Marketplace and Marketplace Morning Report, as well as the Make Me Smart podcast; for LinkedIn, as a Senior Audio Engineer on the LinkedIn Learning content production team; and presently as the mixing and mastering engineer for the hit podcasts My Favorite Murder and This Podcast Will Kill You at Exactly Right Media.

Lianna has previously worked as sound designer and mixing engineer for such acclaimed independent series as the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, Webby Award honoree Menace, and the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Stay Close.

Lianna studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston before moving to Chicago in 2013, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Audio Design and Production from Columbia College. She subsequently earned her Master of Arts in Sound Arts and Industries from Northwestern University. Between 2019 and 2021 Lianna held adjunct teaching positions at both her alma maters, where her course load covered topics such as audio theory and production, analog and digital signal flow, and the art of sound design for film.