Lise Olsen

Ms. Lise Olsen is an investigative reporter based in Texas who specializes in narrative and data journalism. Her work has freed unjustly detained prisoners, prompted reforms and federal prosecutions. She is currently a Senior Reporter and Editor at the Texas Observer Magazine and her outstanding work has recently appeared on NBC News, Inside Climate News and The Houston Chronicle along with highlighted in other publications also. Her investigations also have been featured in two documentaries, “The Eleven” on A & E Network and “The Wrong Man” on CNN’s Death Row Stories. She has organized and taught workshops and conferences in a dozen countries for many journalism organizations including a 2020 Massive Open Online Course for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas that had more than 3,000 participants. She is currently writing a book about a ‘Federal Judge imprisoned for abusing his employees’.