Laura G. Ling (凌志美)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Laura G. Ling
  • Chinese: 凌志美
  • Era: 1976
  • Geography: Sacramento, CA
  • Core roles: journalist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Co-author, Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home, 2011

Education

  • UCLA — 1988 — Communications — 2.

Employment

  • Journalist and writer — Current TV — Correspondent and vice president of the Vanguard Journalism Unit
  • E! Investigates — host and reporter — Discovery Digital Networks — Director of Development

Role in the Community

  • Her TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia entry sits adjacent to her sister 凌志慧’s: 133. Laura G. Ling 凌志美 vs. 132. Lisa J. Ling 凌志慧(both 2014-12-03)— the pair documented in the corpus around the 凌 sisters’ captivity/family story (bibliographic record; full text in vault).
  • Corpus re-verification (2026-09-25, slice 09231400-1): fresh ZH+EN greps of works/ and articles/ returned only this person’s own TAH record [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/133-laura-g-ling-e5-87-8c-e5-bf-97-e7-be-8e|TAH #133]] and its works/index listing — no third-party memoir, letter, or movement mention; nothing new absorbable.

Family

  • Husband: Iain Clayton
  • Daughter: Li Jefferson Clayton

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