Lisa Desjardins Biography
Lisa Desjardins is a political journalist from the United States. She is a correspondent for PBS NewsHour, where she covers news from the United States Capitol as well as travels across the country to report on how Washington policies affect people where they live and work. She has previously worked for CNN Radio and the Associated Press.
Lisa Desjardins Age
She was born Lisa Goddard on January 29, 1972, in Hawaii, United States of America. Lisa is 51 years old as of January 2023.
Where did Lisa Desjardin go to College?- Education
Desjardins earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, from 1990 to 1994. She then spent two years studying Russian at Herzen University in Saint Petersburg, where she learned to speak the language. She began her studies at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in 1996. The following year, she earned a Master of Science in journalism from the same university.
Lisa Desjardins Family
Desjardins was born in Hawaii but spent his childhood in Annandale, Virginia. Her father was a navy officer who retired as a captain and afterward taught at a community college. On her father’s side, she has three siblings and seven half-siblings.
Lisa Desjardins Husband
Desjardins has been married to her husband Jason Desjardins since 2007. Together they have a son, who was born in 2016, the family lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
Lisa Desjardins PBS NewsHour -Career
Desjardins is a PBS NewsHour correspondent who covers events from the United States Capitol as well as travels across the country to report on how decisions in Washington affect people where they live and work. She specializes in cutting down complex events and political conflicts into the main elements that matter, frequently converting numbers and fiscal data into audience-friendly narratives. Desjardins worked as a senior correspondent and Capitol Hill reporter for CNN for nearly ten years before joining NewsHour. She had worked for the Associated Press, WBTW-TV, WIS-TV, WTS-TV, Reuters, and The Sun News, in addition to CNN. She announced the deal to remove the Confederate flag from the state house dome at WIS in Columbia, South Carolina.
Desjardins’ coverage of the January 6th Capitol insurgency earned him a Peabody Award, the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association Joan S. Barone Award, and the National Press Foundation’s Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress. She has also received a Peabody Award for CNN’s coverage of the 2008 election and a Sigma Delta Chi award for national breaking news for her coverage of the Haiti catastrophe.
Lisa Desjardins Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.