writer | photographer | producer | vagabond
Bio
Lisa Lubin is a three-time Emmy-award-winning Television writer/producer/photographer. She produced a variety of broadcast specials, including a weekly lifestyles and entertainment magazine show on ABC Chicago for the last ten years. After 15 years in Television she decided to take a sabbatical of sorts, which turned into 2+ years traveling and working her way around the world.
She has photographed and written about the (mis)adventures that ensued as she traipsed around the globe on her travel website, www.LLworldtour.com, which has had hundreds of thousands of hits and subscribers from all over the world. She was recently interviewed for ABC’s Good Morning America. Her site was a finalist in the 2008 Weblog Awards and listed as one of the “Travel Blogs I can’t live without” in 2008 and top twenty “most-inspirational’ blogs of 2007” by nationally syndicated columnist Chris Elliot. Lisa was also featured on MSNBC.com, Frommers.com, the Chicago Daily Herald, the NJ Daily Record, Women on the Road, The Travel Chicks Radio Show and Chicagoist. Furthermore, her articles and photographs have been published by Sunset Magazine, Smithsonian Online, Encyclopedia Britannica Blogs, The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Go Nomad, Brave New Traveler, and The Savvy Gal. She’s lectured on traveling solo and teamed up with Whole Foods, REI, and Hostelling International for ‘Travel and Food’ seminars this past summer.
Mixing travel and work is one of the most rewarding experiences for this native of Randolph, New Jersey. Lisa graduated Cum Laude from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism. She began her television career in 1992 as an intern in New York City at WCBS-TV and “Late Night with David Letterman.” She went on to work as a director/technical director at WIS-TV, an NBC affiliate in Columbia, South Carolina, and then as promotions producer/editor at WACH-TV, a FOX affiliate, also in Columbia. She drove up to Chicago on New Year’s Day in 1998 with all her possessions (and her cat) to start her new job as a specials producer at ABC7 Chicago.
When not at one of her jobs, Lisa loves traveling and is ready to go anywhere, anytime. She has now visited 45 countries (if you count the Vatican City and Monaco) on six continents and 42 of the U.S. states. She is somewhat of a savant in matters of maps, geography, food, photography, & pop culture.
She is also active in her community, volunteering at Literacy Chicago teaching English as a second language and for PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving) Chicago’s animal adoption drives. Also a volunteer with the Chicago Greeter program, operated by the City of Chicago, she gives tourists from around the world a local’s look at her favorite adopted city. When not traveling the world, she lives on Chicago’s North Side taking in all Chicago has to offer.
