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Lisa Edwards is a three-time national Emmy Award winner, specializing in journalism, video production, and media training. As a senior director and member of the firm’s Storybook team based out of the New York office, Lisa coordinates the deployments of Live Studio, Moments of Genius, InMotion and other Storybook offerings.
Before joining APCO, Lisa founded and ran her own production company for 27 years. She has worked on numerous Olympic Games, produced and directed award-winning documentaries and developed live and serial programming for well-known national networks.
Lisa spent seven years on the staff of ESPN, where she was involved with thousands of live news shows. She also was the first producer to take College GameDay, once exclusively a studio show, on the road to a different college campus every week.
In addition to her extensive television and video production experience, Lisa is a prolific technical writer, specializing in diverse areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and electric vehicles.
Lisa volunteers with senior citizens at an assisted living center and has coached youth sports for many years, A certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, she has completed six marathons and holds several nutrition certifications. Lisa has a master’s of science degree in journalism from Columbia University and double majored in history and French at the University of Virginia. She also spent a semester abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France.