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.
-
St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman left several controversial issues out of his State of the City address over the weekend at Palladium Theater.First, he… -
The women’s college basketball season will culminate in a weekend-long celebration in Tampa this April.NCAA Vice President Lynn Holzman announced the 2019… -
Beads of sweat glisten on Chef Julius Forte’s face as he demonstrates how he prepares his collard greens.“We often only know one way to cook (collards),”… -
Polk County public school officials say more than 80 schools have been cleared after a recent round of tests looking for lead in drinking water.Several… -
State officials say they have almost completed tests on thousands of sexual assault kits dating back five years in an effort to eliminate the backlog and… -
A Tampa federal magistrate has called for an end to a part of the city’s ban on conversion therapy, saying it infringes on the free speech rights of…
