Lisa Sonne's Bio Page

* TRAVEL WRITER * EXPLORER* PHOTOGRAPHER* VIDEOGRAPHER* TRAVEL WRITER*EXPLORER*PHOTOGRAPHER*VIDEOGRAPHER*

* TRAVEL WRITER * EXPLORER* PHOTOGRAPHER* VIDEOGRAPHER* TRAVEL WRITER*EXPLORER*PHOTOGRAPHER*VIDEOGRAPHER*

Her creative work for Oscar, Emmy, Peabody, and CINE Golden Eagle winning projects has taken her to memorable places in the US and abroad. She has written/produced for series on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, DISCOVERY, ANIMAL PLANET, PBS and network and cable television. Topics included cultural anthropology, travel, food, the arts, history, health, science, social issues, and creativity around the world. Her own award-winning documentary, an international co-production narrated by Gregory Peck was sent to the MIR Space Station.

Her magazine credits range from A (AAA LIVING) to Y (YACHTING) and include LIFE, HISTORY, DIVE TRAINING, AVIATION HISTORY, USC, AUDIO, TIME FOR KIDS, and TRAVEL WORLD. Her pieces have been the cover story for the in-flight AMERICAN WAY and for STANFORD magazines.

Her newspaper writing about Kenya won an award for International Destination travel writing from NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) in 2009. Her book for Barnes and Noble, EVERYTHING 101 is slated to be out in early 2011.

As a travel journalist and current member of the Explorer’s Club, she travels with cameras and curiosity and enjoys sharing the world, her own journeys, and the exploration and discovery of others. She helped map caves in Mexico and track whales off Hawaii for articles she wrote. Inventor Graham Hawkes says she is the first woman to “fly underwater” in his winged submersible (2003) an adventure chronicled on NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’s TODAY show. She continued her underwater beat for WIRED.COM in 2009.

Sonne has also floated up and somersaulted in Zero G with cosmonauts and astronauts over Russia for a piece in LIFE magazine, and covered space and space tourism for many outlets. She survived small plane acrobatics over Houston for a cover story of an astronaut for the AMERICAN WAY in-flight magazine. She covered the MIR subs when they first took humans to the Bismark wreck, and Stephanie Schwab when the first samples were pulled from the “Black Holes” of the Bahamas. In 2009 she bounced her questions up to the moon and back down to earth to Apollo astronaut Bill Anders for a long distance interview.

Her photographs have been in books and magazines, and on album covers and posters. She has produced jazz and classical records that made the Billboard charts, company managed touring Broadway shows, helped launch Space.com, co-founded Possibilitators, led national educational projects, and co-founded www.CharityChecks.us, a new way of giving.

She is currently writing books, travelling, speaking, and publishing www.World Tourist Bureau.com which she hopes adds to your enjoyment of the wonders of the world.