Lili Palacios-Baldwin is Deputy General Counsel for Labor, Employment and Litigation at Tufts University. Lili began her legal career in the Boston office of Robinson & Cole LLP where she practiced in the areas of land use, real estate, labor and employment law. After R&C, she worked as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) where she practiced for almost ten years, the last few as a Senior Trial Attorney with responsibility for litigating cases throughout the New York District Office (New England, New York, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands). After leaving the EEOC, Lili continued her law practice with the law firm of Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP in Boston and joined the Tufts University Office of University Counsel in 2013.
Lili has been a member of NACUA since 2012 and is an active member of the Latino Lawyers Affinity Group, of which she served as co-chair from 2018-2020. She is also the recipient of the NACUA First Decade Award (2020). In addition to her service to NACUA, she is active in the Boston Bar Association, and with the advisory board of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. Lili is also active in other professional and community organizations including serving as a volunteer to the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, as a board member for Breakthrough Greater Boston, and as a member of the Women's Bar Association and the Mindfulness in Law Society.
Lili is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and Northeastern University School of Law.