Lisa Gartner

Lisa Gartner

Lecturer

Lisa Gartner is the investigative editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, where she leads investigations and narrative projects. As a reporter at the Tampa Bay Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, she investigated systemic racism in a local school district and violent abuse at the nation’s oldest reform school, earning the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, George Polk Awards for both Education and Justice Reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other honors. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, and lives in Sonoma County with her husband and their two dogs.