Marissa Evans is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Chisholm Free Press, a national nonprofit newsroom she built to be a greenlight for the investigative and narrative journalism this country needs told, grounded in accountability, lived experience, and public trust. An award-winning journalist, she has reported for the Los Angeles Times, Star Tribune, and Texas Tribune, covering everything from the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic to intimate conversations with culture figures including Oprah Winfrey, Usher, Blac Chyna, and Kerry Washington. Her investigation for the Star Tribune revealed how Minnesota allowed private hospitals to seize tax refunds from patients with unpaid medical bills, prompting legislative action in 2021, and her coverage of Texas' maternal mortality crisis at the Texas Tribune earned a 2018 Online News Association Award for explanatory reporting. Her work has been supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, and the Carter Center's Mental Health Reporting Program. She is one of the industry's leading voices on trauma-informed journalism, training reporters in ethical storytelling, sensitive interviewing, building community trust, and sustaining the people doing this work.