Lily founded an organization dedicated to providing overdose response training and harm reduction supplies to young adults on campus and beyond. She and her fellow student volunteers distributed more than 2,500 doses of Narcan and test strips for fentanyl to people in Philadelphia in their first year. Their efforts aim to address the overdose crisis by empowering young adults with the tools and knowledge needed to stay safe, save lives, and advocate for systemic change.

Heather Lewis-Weber, Director for Community Engagement shared “The success of the Temple Overdose Prevention Project demonstrates Lily’s passion for public service to the community, her resourcefulness in procuring partnerships and resources to maintain and even grow the organization’s operations, and her inspiring leadership in having started and managed this project as a college sophomore. She has singlehandedly managed the administrative pieces of running TOP, while coordinating volunteers, obtaining supplies, and raising funds to cover costs. She has shown a real fluency with community engagement work by connecting to local organizations and gaining guidance from local harm reduction experts. One of her biggest accomplishments through this initiative was establishing a partnership with local harm reduction and recovery organization, Savage Sisters, to recruit Temple medical students to provide wound care for those impacted by the adverse effects of harmful substances".