Meet your host
Lisa Shannon
Author. Activist. Storyteller.
Lisa Shannon is a women's rights activist and award-winning author who has spent more than three decades working alongside women and communities confronting violence and injustice around the world. Her work began in domestic violence shelters in her hometown of Portland, Oregon, and has since taken her to India, Russia, Somalia, Iraq, Guatemala, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She founded Run for Congo Women and co-founded the first sexual violence crisis center in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Lisa is the author of A Thousand Sisters, winner of the 2010 Independent Publisher Gold Award for Current Events/Foreign Affairs, and Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen.
A former fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights and Center for Public Leadership, Lisa holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard and an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Georgetown University.
Through Benefit of Beings, Lisa brings her decades of experience, curiosity, and commitment to human connection into conversations about the complicated, messy, beautiful work of being alive together.
The conversation is just beginning
Be Here From the Beginning.
We're creating a space for stories that challenge, connect, surprise, and remind us what it means to be human. Join us as Benefit of Beings takes shape.