About Lisa Biagiotti
Lisa Biagiotti is an independent journalist currently working on a documentary about HIV in the American Deep South.
She has produced documentaries and digital content for the PBS Wide Angle and Worldfocus programs and the Current TV Vanguard series. In 2009, she was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was nominated for a national news Emmy Award for the video stories she produced on the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo.
Lisa’s recent reporting has covered the sanitation crisis in South East Asia and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean and the American South. She also works with high school students to produce short documentaries that explore the topics and themes of her reporting.
Prior to PBS, Lisa worked in marketing and advertising for magazine publishing houses, financial services companies and nonprofit organizations. In 2001, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to research Muslim migration trends in Italy. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Photo: Lisa films on a hanging toilet in East Java, Indonesia. Credit: Adam Yamaguchi.
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