Headshot of Lisa Riordan Seville, a woman with medium length hair, smiling and looking at the camera.
Lisa Riordan Seville
Photo courtesy Lisa Riordan Seville
Director & Producer

Lisa Riordan Seville (she/her) is an award-winning reporter and independent filmmaker whose stories explore how money, power, and policy shape the lives of everyday people. Her investigative and enterprise work has appeared across NBC News platforms, on BuzzFeed News, The Guardian US, Lifetime/A+E Networks, and WNYC Radio. Lisa’s work has been recognized with a Peabody Award, a Hillman Prize, and a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, among others. In 2021, she wrote a cover story for New York Magazine about the deaths of 15 men in New York City's notorious Rikers Island jail complex.

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