Lisa Dawn Falkenberg (born July 12, 1978) is an American journalist.

[2] She began her career as a journalist writing for her high school newspaper.

She attended the University of Texas at Austin and was awarded a degree in journalism in 2000.

[4] The following year, she won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, for a series of columns she had written about corrupt grand jury practices in Texas.

[3] The Pulitzer announcement noted that her win stemmed from "vividly-written, groundbreaking columns about grand jury abuses that led to a wrongful conviction and other egregious problems in the legal and immigration systems.