Can You Imagine? – a podcast in 3 parts
Lisa Cohen
Deloris has spent the past 30 years in this country taking care of other people’s families. She spent the last three of them locked down during Covid, caring for my 98 year old father, with unexpected consequences. She had never intended to return to Jamaica, but now she waits for the pandemic to end and makes plans. Big plans.
Lisa is the Director of Prizes administering the duPont-Columbia Awards at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She taught reporting, video production, and long form narrative video classes there for over a decade, while also directing/producing documentaries; about a maximum security prison hospice staffed by the inmates for the OWN Doc Club, and about the inequities of cancer care in this country for HBO. She also authored a book about the historic disappearance of Etan Patz in 1979 that ushered in a profound change in child rearing in America. Previous to that she produced long form stories and documentaries at ABC and CBS News for over 20 years. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a dual degree in International Relations and French, neither of which she particularly made use of in her career, but realizes it was an invaluable lesson in developing critical thinking skills and the ability to speak with a guttural R.