Asian Real Estate Association to Feature Award-Winning Journalist Lisa Ling at their 10-Year Anniversary Celebration Convention

Asian Real Estate Association to Feature Award-Winning Journalist Lisa Ling at their 10-Year Anniversary Celebration Convention

CARLSBAD, Calif., July 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) has announced that award-winning journalist Lisa Ling will be among the speakers who will highlight their annual National Convention that will be held in Los Angeles this fall.

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Lisa Ling is currently both the executive producer and host of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) program Our America. In two seasons, Lisa has covered a wide range of in-depth stories from a Midwest town's struggle with an onslaught of heroin addiction to sex trafficking of minors in our nation's capital.

As a former correspondent to the Oprah Winfrey Show as well as an important contributor to both ABC News' Nightline and National Geographic's Explorer, Lisa has reported from dozens of countries around the world covering often-neglected stories such as bride burning in India, the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, and the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang in Central America. Lisa also went on to become a co-host on ABC Daytime's hit show The View , a special correspondent for CNN's Planet in Peril Series, and a current contributing editor for USA Today's USA Weekend magazine. In 2008, Lisa also began to write, produce, and host a special on community devastation caused by home foreclosure in the Inland Empire.

Lisa has co-authored 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. She is also a co-founder of www.SecretSocietyofWomen.com, a key contributor to www.iVolunteer.org, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the California Museum.

"We are very excited to have her speak at the Convention," commented Jim Park, the 2013 AREAA National Chair. "Her long list of achievements in the numerous types of media makes her the perfect fit for helping us celebrate 10 years of promoting sustainable homeownership for the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community".

Lisa will be the featured speaker at the Convention's Keynote Luncheon, where she will provide commentary on a special video screening chronicling the storied 10-year history of the organization and interview founding as well as future leaders of AREAA. The event will be sponsored by Bank of America.

To register for the Convention, visit convention.areaa.org. A special early-bird rate of $349 will be available until August 16th. Tickets to the luncheon are priced at $95.

CONTACT: Michael Kelly, 760-918-9162, mkelly@areaa.org

SOURCE Asian Real Estate Association of America

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