Lisa Falkenberg was born and raised in the small South Texas town of Seguin, near San Antonio, the daughter of a truck driver and a homemaker. She was the first in her family to go to college and graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. During and after college she worked with the Associated Press and was named Texas AP Writer of the Year in 2004. Falkenberg is Vice President and Editor of Opinion at The Houston Chronicle and mentors students through their high school journalism program. (Spring 2018)