Lisa Hagen
Lisa Hagen is a reporter at WABE.
In 2011, Lisa interned and produced videos for the English-language news site Al-Ahram, in Cairo, Egypt. She鈥檚 reported for DNAInfo.com and from Clinton Hill/Ft. Greene Brooklyn for the NYTimes鈥� 鈥淭he Local鈥� blog. She鈥檚 also put in a couple years as a stringer for the New York Post before moving south.
Lisa studied creative writing at Brooklyn鈥檚 Pratt Institute, but ended up with a much more practical degree in 鈥淢ilitarism and Sexuality鈥� from New York University鈥檚 Gallatin School. A master鈥檚 degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism seemed a next logical step.
She鈥檚 originally from Kahalu鈥檜, Hawaii. Lisa does not know how to surf. She can, however, filet a salmon very quickly and is a lover of fly-fishing.
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A Republican senator from Georgia has introduced a bill to study what he calls "mass violence." It would give a $300 million infusion to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
鈥淚 remember how good it felt when I shot my first gun. I remember what all the people around me said. But nobody around me when they saw me shoot my first gun said anything about mental health.鈥� - Author Kiese Laymon -
Lowering gun violence was one issue on which Democratic presidential candidates spoke with nearly one voice. But researchers question the effectiveness of some of the Democrats' proposals. -
Gun policy is back on the democratic debate stage in a way it hasn鈥檛 been in decades. But are the candidates鈥� proposals likely to save lives? -
Lots of research shows the presence of guns increases the risk of violence for women, but self-defense is still the main reason women own firearms. -
After decades of decline, the rate of Americans killing their intimate partners has seen 鈥渁 sharp increase鈥� in recent years. Data shows that uptick is exclusively due to gun-related murders. -
鈥淐onstitutional Carry鈥� is a gun law that lets people to carry guns without permits. Laws like this have swept through more than a dozen gun-friendly states in the last decade. But in Georgia, the attempt to pass it is dividing even the most devout gun rights advocates. -
Hospital-based violence intervention programs have been around for almost 25 years. So why is the approach just catching on in certain parts of the country? -
A new study shows black Americans are much more likely to be killed by a gun before reaching age 20 and those deaths are driving down overall life expectancy for black Americans by an average of four years. -
Earlier this fall in Atlanta, about a hundred Emory University medical students gathered during lunch, scarfing down their meal before a panel discussion. They came, on their own time, to learn how to talk to their future patients about gun safety.
