Lisa Armstrong is an award-winning journalist with credits in The Intercept, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and other outlets. She reports mainly on incarceration and has written about the spread of COVID-19 in prisons and people serving life without parole for crimes committed when they were minors. She produced a documentary for CBS News about how subpar mental health care provided by for-profit companies led to in 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 was featured in the Social Impact track at SXSW. Armstrong was a 2020-2021 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow and 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Writing. She is a professor at UC Berkeley and also taught at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism for 12 years.