Lisa Hagen of WABE, Atlanta, Chris Haxel of KCUR, Kansas City, Graham Smith and Robert Little of National Public Radio

Lisa Hagen is a public radio reporter in Atlanta, GA and co-host of the NPR investigative podcast: No Compromise. She was part of the multi-station Guns & America public radio reporting collaborative and has covered criminal and social justice in Georgia since 2015. Before that she worked as a stringer for the New York Post.

Lisa earned her master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Originally from Kahalu’u, Hawaii, Lisa does not know how to surf. She can, however, filet a salmon very quickly and is a lover of fly-fishing.

Chris Haxel, co-host of NPR investigative podcast No Compromise, covers military and veterans issues for KCUR in Kansas City, MO. He previously worked with the public radio reporting collaborative Guns & America. Before that he worked for newspapers in Kansas and Michigan. Haxel also served in the Army, where he studied Russian, visited actual Timbuktu and jumped out of perfectly good airplanes.

Graham Smith is a producer, reporter and photographer working around the U.S. and in conflict zones from the Mid-East to Asia and Africa. He ran All Things Considered for several years, and edited Morning Edition. He now works with independent producers and NPR staffers on sound-rich, long-form investigative pieces and podcasts.

Smith was a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as producer of NPR's White Lies podcast, and has won Murrow, Peabody and RFK awards for various projects including collaborations with Youth Radio and battlefield reportage from Afghanistan.

Longtime investigative reporter and editor Robert Little leads NPR's investigations team, working with reporters, producers, and editors to develop investigative stories for all of NPR's broadcast and digital platforms. Since joining NPR in 2013, Little has directed and edited many of the network's signature investigative projects.

Under his leadership, stories from the investigations team have won some of the top honors in investigative journalism, including as a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for audio, multiple Peabody Awards, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, Edward R. Murrow Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Before joining NPR, Little spent 15 years as a reporter and editor at The Baltimore Sun. From 2010-2012 he managed all of the organization's main newsgathering departments. Little started at the paper as a reporter in 1998 and covered breaking news and enterprise stories across the country and around the world, including the 2001 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. His stories about trauma care in combat prompted the Department of Defense to distribute tourniquets to every deployed soldier and Marine worldwide. He's won numerous local and national journalism awards, including the George Polk Award for his investigative reporting in Iraq. Prior to The Baltimore Sun, Little reported for The Virginian-Pilot and The Carroll County Times.