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Liliana was born in Argentina, and at the age of 19, she married Horacio R. Da Valle. In 1982, they immigrated to the United States. 

            Liliana worked at a Domestic Violence agency in Northern California and later in Illinois. Upon graduating together with a Master of Divinity from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, IL, in 1990, they were called as co-pastors to the First Baptist Church of South Gate.  During her years at this church, Liliana also served as a hospice chaplain.

            Years later, in Boston, Liliana became an Area Minister with The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts and obtained a Doctor of Ministry degree. Her project was “Multicultural Churches.” In 2007, she was called to be the Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island. In 2008, Liliana and Horacio became American Citizens.

            Upon returning to the West Coast, she pastored Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, CA, and Urban Grace in Tacoma, WA. Liliana also worked toward a Doctorate of Business Administration.

            She has always held ministries of compassion with those who are marginalized, mistreated, or suffering in any other way, like abused women, terminally ill people, imprisoned persons, and the unhoused.

Dr. Da Valle is a well-known international speaker.  She has preached in Bulgaria, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico, as well as at the ABC Biennial of 1999.  

            Liliana has taught Practical Theology at Andover Newton Theological School and Gordon Conwell Seminary, both in MA. Currently, she teaches in the Latino Initiative at the Berkeley School of Theology and is the Pacific Northwest Regional Director of the Kaleidoscope Institute. 

            Her passions are intercultural communication and integration, leadership, traveling, and art. Liliana and Horacio have four children, 10 grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.