Charisse Jones

Charisse Jones is the co-author of “Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America,’’ which won the 2004 American Book Award. A veteran reporter who is currently a national business correspondent for USA Today, Jones was previously a staff writer for the New York Times and part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team at The Los Angeles Times. Jones is a frequent contributor to CBS This Morning as well as WBUR-Boston, and has appeared on the Today show and MSNBC. She has co-authored five other books, including the Misty Copeland memoir, “Life In Motion,’’ a New York Times bestseller, and most recently was featured in “Changes,’’ an oral history of the life of Tupac Shakur.