Lisa Napoli

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Lisa Napoli moved to southern California in 2004 to work on the public radio show, Marketplace. She's the author of 4 books, including: "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie," about the "founding mothers" of NPR; "Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24 Hours News"; "Ray & Joan," about the McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc; and "Radio Shangri-la", about helping to start a radio station in Bhutan, the "happiest place on earth," at the dawn of democratic rule.

(author photo by Preston Wiles)