Grantee Lisa Armstrong To Visit Chaffey College, Discuss Abuse in Texas Juvenile System

Journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Lisa Armstrong will visit Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga, California, on September 27 to deliver a lecture to advanced journalism students.

Armstrong currently reports on incarceration. Her Pulitzer Center-supported project, Trouble in Texas: Neglect, Abuse at State Juvenile Detention Facilities, followed Keith, an at-risk juvenile inmate in Texas. Keith was failed by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD), anemic oversight, and representatives at all levels of state government.

Armstrong is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in The Intercept, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, USA TODAY, among others.