A powerful advocate and fundraiser for food allergies, Liana co-founded Food Allergy Initiative (FAI – now known as FARE) in 1998. She has dedicated her life to finding a cure for life threatening food allergies. She has helped create and implement policies for schools, camps, airlines and countless other institutions.  She has personally trained restaurants, hotels and universities worldwide (most notably Georgetown University) and has lobbied for stricter and clearer labeling laws before the FDA. A trusted resource, she has provided epinephrine for public places and has been integral in all areas of this growing health epidemic, including counseling families afflicted and participating in clinical trials with leading scientists. 

Liana is on the top sales team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate. She has worked in real estate since college where she received an undergraduate Finance Degree from NYU’s Stern School of Business. She has strategic and complex sales strategies which include design and contract work. Fiercely loyal with attention to detail and discretion are key strengths in both real estate and the non-profit industries. 

A lifelong philanthropist raised in a real estate family, Liana’s networks span all industry and backgrounds. She is involved with asthma and allergy research at the leading hospital and scientific institutions such as Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, FASI at The Broad Institute in Boston, National Jewish Hospital in Denver. Other important causes include The Jed Foundation (teen suicide prevention), Columbia Psychiatry (Dr Jeffrey Lieberman), Child Mind Institute (Dr. Howard Koplewicz), Chron’s and Colitis Foundation, The Navy Seals, and her children’s schools. Born in Brazil and raised on Long Island, she lives on the Upper East Side with her husband and daughter and is also the proud mother of two adult sons.