Ashley Lisenby
News DirectorAshley Lisenby is the news director of St. Louis Public Radio. She comes to STLPR from NPR’s Weekend Edition where she was a producer and editor. Lisenby previously worked in this newsroom as a reporter and in local newsrooms in D.C., Tampa, Springfield, Illinois, and the Chicago suburbs. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from Boston University and a master's degree from the University of Illinois-Springfield’s Public Affairs Reporting program. Lisenby was previously the race, identity and culture reporter at St. Louis Public Radio.
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John Gaskin III, the new St. Louis County NAACP president, says there are two local civil rights issues he wants to address: community policing and… -
It's a common sight at the Fairmont City Library Center: Students discussing the grammar and syntax of English sentences in small groups.On a recent… -
Despite shrinking income and education gaps between white and non-white families, black families in the United States still trail others in wealth… -
More than half of Missouri’s poorest residents are paying more than half of their yearly income in rent. Non-profit leaders at two Missouri organizations… -
Updated at 4:35 p.m. on Oct. 12 with details about the police chief's departure.Ferguson Police Chief Delrish Moss said Friday his last day on the will be… -
St. Louis activist and filmmaker Cami Thomas moved back to St. Louis from college a year after Michael Brown’s death. While news of the 2014 shooting and… -
The University City Tax Increment Financing commission approved a proposal Thursday that would release millions of dollars in money for development in the… -
The door is off its hinges in Farlon Wilson’s bathroom. Wilson said that’s an improvement from when she first moved in, when there was no bathroom door at… -
UPDATED at 12:35 p.m. on Aug. 20 with statement from St. Louis Medical Examiner's Office saying the autopsy would take eight to 15 weeks.Jail-reform… -
Tamyka Brown was perfecting her shot. Her target sheet, riddled with bullet holes, showed she knows what she’s doing. When asked about her time on the gun… -
Bobbi Len Taylor Mitchell-Bey's children were killed at the Clinton-Peabody housing complex in south St. Louis more than a year ago.On Friday, she asked… -
The Natural Bridge location of the St. Louis County Library is a little less quiet than usual. Instead of the occasional rustling of paging through books…
