Lisa Pickoff-White

Director of Research at the Investigative Reporting Program's California Reporting Project

Lisa Pickoff-White works at the Investigative Reporting Program as the California Reporting Project’s Director of Research, where she’s working with teams of engineers, academics and researchers to build new ways of extracting data from police use-of-force and misconduct records to drive reporting and a public database. Previously, she’s worked on award-winning investigations at KQED, the Center for Investigative Reporting and other outlets. She was honored with a Murrow award for an investigation into how long-term care facilities are at risk for wildfires, and was nominated for a Peabody for her work on the breakdown in emergency communications during the 2017 Northern California fires. At KQED, she also built applications to meet daily audience needs, from power shutoff maps to election results.