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Lisa J. Shannon is an author and founder of Run for Congo Women, which is a volunteer effort to raise funds and awareness for women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She previously owned a photography production company in Portland, Oregon, where she served as art director and producer. Run for Congo Women has sponsored more than 1400 war-affected Congolese women through Women for Women International. Shannon's book, A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman covers her journeys into eastern Congo in January—February 2007 and May 2008.

Shannon appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in October 2009. Her work and A Thousand Sisters have been profiled in other national media as well.

She just completed her third trip to Congo, January—March 2010. Shannon contributed an essay, "A Simple Run", to the 2010 book The Enough Moment: Fighting to End Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes, by John Prendergast with Don Cheadle. She is now working on a sequel to A Thousand Sisters.

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