(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lisa Akers, 54, poses with pictures of her birth mother Lenore and her half-sister Kelly on her cell phone at her home in Grantsville, May 11, 2019. Akers used DNA testing through 23andMe that led her to discover her birth mother and three half-sisters in February 2019. Akers and her family will get to meet her mother Lenore and half-sisters, Lenore, Karen and Kelly for the first time in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
Lee has worked at The Tribune since 2011. He previously was a reporter for 28 years at the Deseret News, including 18 years as its Washington, D.C., correspondent. He covers politics, transportation and demographics.