Lisa Pollak
About Lisa Pollak
Lisa is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and radio producer who specializes in narrative stories about ordinary people. She started out as a print journalist, spending 12 years as a features writer at daily newspapers including the Baltimore Sun, where she wrote her Pulitzer winner.
In a decade at the public radio show This American Life, she reported, wrote, and produced stories on everything from an Iraq War veteran who joined a Muslim student group to combat his fear of Muslims to a man who spent 30 years as the chief suspect in a crime he didn’t commit. She was also part of the Emmy Award-winning team that produced two seasons of This American Life for the Showtime television network.