Lisa Krantz is a staff photographer at the San Antonio Express-News. Before joining the staff of the Express News, she spent five years as a staff photographer at the Naples (FL) Daily News. She holds a master’s degree in photography from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Florida State University. In 2011, her portfolio placed third in the Newspaper Photographer of the Year competition in Pictures of the Year International. Her project chronicling a year at Sam Houston High School, a troubled school threatened with closure, also placed in Issue Reporting Picture Story and was a finalist for the Community Awareness Award in POYi. The project was part of the portfolio that earned Lisa the 2010 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Photojournalism and was a finalist for the 2011 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism and the ASNE Community Photojournalism Award. She is also a three-time NPPA Region 8 Photographer of the Year, for work in 2005, 2009 and 2010. Lisa has served on the faculty of the Eddie Adams Workshop, The Fall Workshop at Syracuse University and the Weekend In Workshop at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is currently the Diversity Chair for the NPPA.