Lily Bonga is an artist, scholar, museum and archaeological professional with experience in fieldwork, research, publications, illustration, photography, curation, database entry, and cataloging. 20 years of experience in cultural institutions in Greece and the United States.

Lily hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She has spent over a year and half of her life in a tent, and celebrated three birthdays inside caves. Until the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2019, she rarely spent more than one month in the same place.