Lisa Godley

Lisa Godley is an Emmy Award-Winning Director and a six-time Emmy Award-Winning Television Producer and Show Host. Lisa also produces the highly acclaimed National Public Radio show, Another View. This popular call-in show gives listeners an opportunity to engage in today's issues discussed from an African American perspective.

At WHRO Public Media, Lisa wears many hats. As Director, Equity Production and Outreach, Lisa is responsible for insuring that locally produced videos, documentaries, feature stories and television specials reflect the various races, backgrounds, ethnicities and genders that makeup this area’s population.

Some of her favorite events to assemble are taking Another View into the community for live broadcasts. Lisa’s passion for storytelling is reflected in her award-winning work which includes documentaries like: Against the Current and The Historic Attucks Theatre: Apollo of the South; features such as the story of opera singer Ryan Speedo Green, and musician and luthier Freeman Vines; videos for the web like: Cannabis Sniffing K-9s: Out of a job? and television specials including Veterans Voices, where she served as the show’s Executive Producer and Host.

When she's not producing live television, web videos and radio programs, Lisa works with WHRO’s news division creating video projects that address this region’s history and resident’s concerns. Her work has twice been recognized by the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) as the Best in Public Television.

Her latest project includes serving as Director, Writer and Executive Producer of WHRO’s newest documentary which follows four young musicians of color participating in the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s Fellows Program.

Lisa earned her Master's of Science degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University's prestigious Medill School of Journalism and proudly received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Norfolk State University.

Lisa is the Immediate Past President of Hampton Roads Black Media Professionals (HRBMP), the local affiliate chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). During her time in office, she spearheaded the creation of the Byron Burney Community Journalism Academy (BBCJA) and now serves as the Academy’s Superintendent.

She currently serves on the Media Team as a Camera Operator at Grove Church in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Prior to her work at PBS, Lisa spent ten years working as an Anchor/Reporter in the Hampton Roads television market. Throughout her career, she has worked as a Television Journalist in Nashville, Louisville and Washington, DC.

This includes, serving as WHRO's liaison to the PBS News Hour's Student Reporting Lab at Norfolk's Granby High School for more than a decade. She also supervises college interns for WHRO.

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