Lisa Morehouse

Alum 2011, Alum 2015

Lisa Morehouse (alum 2011, 2015) is an award-winning public radio reporter and editor. Her series California Foodways is a county-by-county exploration of stories at the intersection of food, culture, history, economics, labor and the environment. The stories air on KQED’s The California Report Magazine, and national shows like All Things Considered, Here and Now, The World, and The Splendid Table, as well as on the California Foodways podcast. The series received a national Edward R. Murrow Award and four James Beard nominations, and Lisa was named a fellow for the UC Berkeley-11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship, and Les Dames d’Escoffier San Francisco Karola Saekel Craib Excellence In Food Journalism Fellowship. Lisa is the Senior Editor for KALW Public Radio’s news magazine, Crosscurrents, where she helps train new audio journalists.

Photos: Jean Melesaine