Lilly Ettinger received her Bachelor’s Degree from Baylor University and Masters of Divinity in Leadership from George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor. As a person in recovery, she has been involved in collegiate recovery since 2011 and began working in the field as a graduate student. She has served as a founding student, graduate student, support specialist, program coordinator, and director for the recovery program at Baylor before joining UT Austin as Director for the Center for Students in Recovery in 2022.  She has also served as an adjunct faculty member in the Baylor School of Education in Educational Leadership and the Baylor Honors College Interdisciplinary Core. In 2020 She was awarded the National Collegiate Recovery Staff Member of the Year Award by the Association for Recovery in Higher Education, where she also serves on the advisory board and co-wrote ethical guidelines for collegiate recovery staff.