In 2018 Zilinskiene was named as one of 100 women that Lithuania is proud of as part of the '100 Lithuanian Women' project.[17][18] She was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2019 Birthday Honours [19] and was invited to give lecturers at Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty,[20] Coventry University [21] and at the 2021 Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime,[22] speaking on leadership, entrepreneurship and language technology.