Celebrate Women’s History Month
Dee Dee Catalano, Program Vice President
We have a lot to celebrate and it is good to hear stories about successful women and their histories! T
he March program will feature author Lisa Napoli whose book Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie, the Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR is an intriguing story of their friendship and careers in public radio. It is also the story of how the history of women in journalism began to change in the 1970’s as they upended the status quo and became the face of public radio and the “Founding Mothers of NPR.”
Lisa Napoli was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Los Angeles in 2004 to 
work on the public radio show Marketplace. She has written 3 other books, including her own radio story of helping to start a radio station in the newly democratic Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, Radio Shangri-La. She has worked as a journalist and documentary maker. For 5 years she led a monthly, award-winning volunteer cooking group at the Downtown Women’s Center on Skid Row.
If you would like to order her book, Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie, Lisa suggests the LiveTalks bookstore, a Black/immigrant owned business that stocks signed copies of her books:
https://livetalksla.square.site/product/foundingmothers/425