Keynote Speaker | Award-Winning Journalist and Producer
LISA LING Lisa is currently a special contributor to CBS News. Previously, she executive produced and hosted nine seasons of This Is Life and the special Take Out on CNN, as well as Our America on OWN. She was also a field correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, a contributor to ABC News’ Nightline, and the first female host of National Geographic’s flagship show Explorer. She 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, and later went on to become a co-host of ABC Daytime’s hit show The View, which won its first daytime Emmy during her time at the show. Lisa is the co-author of Mother, Sister. Daughter, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood, and Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and The Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home that she penned with her sister Laura. In 2014, President Obama appointed Lisa to the Commission on White House Fellows. She is an advisory board member for The First Partner of California’s CA Partners Project, The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), and a Baby2Baby angel. Lisa is married to Paul Song and has two daughters, Jett and Ray.