![Police officers line up on Washington Ave. in downtown St. Louis on Sept. 28, 2018 as people protest against the Stockley verdict and against mass arrests during a protest the previous week.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/a827e0e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/800x1067+400+0/resize/150x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmediad.publicbroadcasting.net%2Fp%2Fkwmu%2Ffiles%2F201811%2F092817_CH_stockleydowntown_01_02.jpg)
Ashley Lisenby
Ashley Lisenby is the race, identity and culture reporter at St. Louis Public Radio. She came to KWMU from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where she was a general assignment reporter who mostly covered county municipal government issues. Before making the switch to radio, Ashley covered Illinois government for The Associated Press in Springfield, Illinois, and neighborhood goings-on at a weekly newspaper in a Chicago suburb. Ashley is a Chicago native (yes, the city not the suburbs). She has a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University.
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