Lisa Armstrong is an award-winning journalist with credits in The Guardian, The Intercept, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Texas Tribune, and other outlets. She has reported from several countries, including Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and the Philippines. She reported from Haiti from 2010 to 2014, and has been featured on NPR and the BBC, discussing rape in the camps in Haiti and HIV/AIDS in the aftermath of the earthquake.

She is currently reporting on incarceration and has written about people who were sentenced to life without parole as minors, solitary confinement, and other issues. She also produced a documentary for CBS News about how subpar mental health care provided by for-profit companies led to an increase in suicides in state prisons and directed a documentary about a young man who was incarcerated in an adult prison when he was 16. The film, “Little Boy Lost,” was featured in the Social Impact track at SXSW. Lisa has used her audio reporting to partner with musicians, poets, and other artists for live performances at Carnegie Hall, SFJAZZ, and other venues.

Lisa is a professor at the UC Berkeley Journalism School and taught at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for 12 years before joining the faculty at Berkeley. She also teaches journalism at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.

Lisa was a 2015-2016 fellow for the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism.