<p>With more than two decades of experience in groundbreaking storytelling, Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Lisa Ling shares stories of her dramatic career to educate and inspire audiences to live without limits.</p><p>Over a twenty-year career in media, journalist Lisa Ling has dedicated herself to shedding light on stories impacting the world in which we live. She joined CBS News in 2023 after 15 years with CNN, where she hosted This Is Life with Lisa Ling. For five seasons, she hosted Our America on OWN and was also a field correspondent for <em>The Oprah Winfrey Show</em> and contributor to ABC News Nightline, reporting from dozens of countries. </p><p>Lisa got her start in journalism as a correspondent for Channel One News where she covered the civil war in Afghanistan at 21 years of age. She later went on to become a co-host of ABC’s <em>The View</em>. She is the co-author with anthropologist Joanne B. Eicher of the book <em>Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood </em>(National Geographic), a compelling exploration of all things female.</p>
Acclaimed Journalist On OWN & CNN
<ul><li><strong>Open Heart, Open Mind: Field Notes from a Compassionate Journalist</strong></li><li>Having witnessed both the best and worst sides of human nature through her decades of reporting, journalist Lisa Ling shares stories of her dramatic career to educate and inspire audiences to live without limits. Through an open and engaging conversation, Ling will share her own career path – working with an open heart and open mind wherever in the world she found herself – to explain how journalism plays an important role in the world around us, and how, as times continue to change, it can be a force for propelling the world forward in new and positive ways.</li></ul>