Lisa Hill

Lisa Hill

Designer

Lisa Hill co-designed the Workshop site and produces informational and project graphics for various Workshop and investigative projects.

Currently, Hill is Assistant Dean for Communication Design at the Alexandria campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), where she oversees the print, interactive, and multimedia programs. She teaches a range of courses from Visual Communications and Typography, to Illustration and Interactive Design. Prior to joining NOVA, Hill taught graphic design as an adjunct at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, and worked in the private sector as a creative director.  She was a founding partner of Altman Meder Lawrence Hill, a Florida-based design firm whose national reputation for creative design brought in clients from diverse areas including telecommunications, health care, public service, and media outlets such as the St. Petersburg Times.

Hill's print, broadcast, and interactive design work has been honored by The Art Directors Club of New York, The Advertising Club of New York, Creative Newspaper, Print Regional Design Annuals, Communication Arts, and The Strathmore Gallery, and has received numerous Addy Awards (including multiple best of show awards). She maintains a fine art studio, has been part of numerous art exhibitions in the Mid-Atlantic region, and is a past public arts trust grant recipient in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Hill has a B.A. in Fine Arts/Graphic Design from the University of Florida, and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art).

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Workshop Partners

Workshop Partners

We publish online and in print, often teaming up with other news organizations. We post quarterly updates to our BankTracker project, in which you can view the financial health of every bank and credit union in the country, with msnbc.com, and we co-publish stories in our What Went Wrong project with The Philadelphia Inquirer and New America Media. Learn more on our partners page.

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Donald Barlett and James Steele are revisiting America: What Went Wrong, their landmark 1991 newspaper series, in a new project with the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Over the next year, the project team will examine how four decades of public policy has shaped America's ongoing economic crisis.