Rodriguez, Lissette_13824Lissette is a digital news associate with the ABC News politics desk in New York City, where she assists in daily and long term coverage of the 2016 presidential election. This is her third year with ABC News, starting off as in intern with the Brian Ross Investigative Unit in Chicago and later working with the team in New York City.

She is an alum of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where she majored in broadcast journalism with a minor in Spanish. While there she was news director and producer of Northwestern’s only Spanish-language media outlet, Noticiero Northwestern. She also reported and produced video coverage on potential wrongful convictions for the Medill Justice Project.

Her reporting and production experience also includes reporting and writing for the newspaper, The Stockton Record, along with her time interning with the KCRA 3 News special projects team in Sacramento, Calif.