Lisa Ling is the executive producer and host of This is Life on CNN. On the show, Lisa travels across the country in search of ordinary people with extraordinary lives.

For five seasons prior, Ling executive produced and hosted Our America on OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network. Through out the series, Lisa examined aspects of American society that may be viewed as marginal or outside the mainstream.

As the former field correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and contributor to ABC News' Nightline and National Geographic's Explorer, Lisa Ling has reported from dozens of countries, covering stories from a wide range of topics.

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 as well as stories in dozens of countries around the world. She 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, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood and Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home, which she penned with her sister, Laura. She is a co-founder of www.SecretSocietyofWomen.com, a contributor to www.iVolunterr.org.

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