Lisa Napoli

Lisa is most proud of her work as the founding board chair of the Bhutan Media Society, which produces the all-volunteer Bhutan News Service, begun by Bhutanese refugees back in the camps in Nepal and continued now in diaspora. She also serves as contributing editor. For her use of social media in leading a cooking group on Skid Row in Los Angeles, she won the Downtown Women’s Center a $25,000 Halo Award.

Before Lisa Napoli wrote Radio Shangri-La, she’d worked for CNN, as a technology reporter in the early days of the Web at The NY Times, in a similar capacity at MSNBC, and also at the public radio show Marketplace. (In that order, and with a variety of other jobs in between.)

Her biography of the late philanthropist, Mrs. Joan Kroc was published by Dutton in November, 2016. You can find more about this new book, titled Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave it All Away, here.

She also loves to talk about the themes in Radio Shangri-la in front of groups large and small, which she has done around the world. And while she is happy to hear about your trip to Bhutan, or recommend tour guides, please note that she is unable to arrange for volunteer opportunities (after many mostly futile years of attempting connections) or to consult on how a visitor might alter their itinerary (as most guides are following a route proscribed by their tour agency.)