Ashley Lisenby
Ashley Lisenby is a general assignment reporter at WUSF Public Media. She covered racial and economic disparity at St. Louis Public Radio before moving to Tampa in 2019.
She's a former newspaper reporter, having covered municipal government issues as a general assignment reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and covered Illinois government for The Associated Press.
Ashley started her journalism career at a group of weekly newspapers in suburban Chicago. She has a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University.
Ashley is a Chicago native. She lives in the Tampa Bay area with her family, which includes a rambunctious dog.
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The deaths of three journalists this week in Ukraine are a reminder of the perils of covering conflicts from behind a camera. Photojournalist Marcus Yam is on assignment in Kyiv covering the war. -
A crowd instantly formed around Ronald Seaman when they saw what he could do.The masked man with pointy ears jutting up from the side of his helmet rolled… -
Pride, determination, and unity are the key messages of the fifth annual Tampa Pride festival and parade, organizers say.Tampa Pride President Carrie West… -
Law enforcement say changes in policies and technology are helping them find human traffickers.Officials from the Tampa Police Department, Pasco County… -
Rosalva Serrano worked with her family as a girl picking oranges, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables and fruits in Florida, Georgia and other parts… -
Teams and costume-clad swimmers walked, ran and jumped into the 'cold' waters of Adventure Island on Saturday as part of the first Tampa Polar Plunge… -
Three adult manatees and one calf have found a temporary home at ZooTampa at Lowry Park.Zoo staff welcomed the arrival of the animals Thursday during… -
Gaps in commercial building permit records and inaccurate charges are among some of the findings in an audit of Pasco County’s Central Permitting… -
Tampa area Muslims are mourning the deaths of at least 49 people in attacks on a pair of mosques in New Zealand Friday.Hassan Shibly, attorney and chief… -
The message of former Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz is clear: Americans are tired of partisan politics.He told a group of business owners at a…
