Alissa Figueroa is a Baltimore-based journalist, filmmaker, and Lecturer at Morgan State University. Her first television documentary, “Prison Kids” (Fusion) won a half dozen prizes, was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy, and was a finalist for the Livingston Award. Her second, “Rigged” (Fusion) was recognized with the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. Figueroa was a founding producer of the investigative documentary unit at Fusion and later directed the Ida B. Wells Fellowship for investigative journalists of color at Type Investigations. She started her career at NBC News. She’s a graduate of the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.