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Lisa Mullins

2022 Speaker

LISA MULLINS is the award-winning anchor of WBUR’s All Things Considered and guest host of NPR’s midday news program Here and Now. Mullins hosted the daily BBC, PRI, WGBH international news show, The World, for more than a decade. Her foreign reporting has taken her to Morocco, Turkey, Hong Kong, Egypt, Cuba, Northern Ireland, South Africa, South and North Korea, and beyond. In 2009, she received the Clarion Award for the story she wrote and produced about her 24-hour stay at a North Korean tourist resort. The same year, Mullins was awarded a fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Her studies included diplomacy, religion, and the arts. Mullins wrote and produced documentaries for Human Media and produced podcasts for Harvard Business School. She also hosted a PBS-TV series called Thinking Big. In 2019, she was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame.