Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling was most recently a special correspondent for CBS News where she has produced multi-part series on the Crisis of Caregiving, the Psychedelic Renaissance and the State of Spirituality. She is currently the founder of MightyLings, a platform that promotes intergenerational strength, wellness and spiritual building. For nine seasons, she hosted and executive produced This Is Life on CNN where she embedded with a notorious biker club, reported on the opioid crisis’ youngest victims and highlighted a unique book club behind bars. Prior, Lisa hosted and executive produced Our America for the Oprah Winfrey Network and was the field correspondent for The Oprah Show. She was also a contributor to ABC News’ Nightline. Lisa was the first female host of National Geographic’s flagship series Explorer, where she investigated the deadly MS-13 gang, went undercover inside North Korea and explored the drug wars in South America. She got her start in journalism as a correspondent for Channel One News, where she covered the civil war in Afghanistan at 21. She later became a co-host of ABC daytime's hit show The View, which won its first daytime Emmy during her time there. She 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. Lisa sits on the boards of the prison re-entry organization CROP, the California Partner’s Project, The Asian American Foundation and the Kids Mental Health Foundation.