LISA EVERS is a 2X Emmy Award winning tele­vi­sion jour­nal­ist for FOX 5 News in New York, FOX Soul and Live NOW on FOX, along with mul­ti­ple digi­tal stream­ing plat­forms.

You can see Lisa re­port­ing for the 5, 6 and 10p News on FOX5NY. She is a week end news up­date an­chor for FOX 5 and FOX Lo­cal, and com­men­ta­tor for Live NOW. on ma­jor break­ing sto­ries.

Lisa is Host and Ex­ec­u­tive Pro­duc­er of “Street Sol­diers with Lisa Evers,” a mul­ti plat­form show she cre­at­ed on HOT 97 in the late 1990’s. It de­buted on FOX 5 as a week­ly TV show in 2016 and cur­rent­ly airs at 10:30pm on Fri­days on FOX 5, and on Sat­ur­days on FOX Soul. The ra­dio show airs on Sun­days at 7am on HOT 97.

Both the TV video and ra­dio ver­sions of “Street Sol­diers with Lisa Evers” live on mul­ti­ple digi­tal stream­ing plat­forms, in­clud­ing You­tube and Apple Pod­casts. In each week­ly episode, Lisa brings to­geth­er di­verse guests with dif­fer­ent view points on top ur­ban and cul­tur­al is­sues of the day. Shows top­ics in­clude the new gang cul­ture, teen girl gang mem­bers, so­cial me­dia and men­tal health, gun vi­o­lence, hip hop and mu­sic re­lat­ed top­ics, drug dan­gers such as pink co­caine and fe­natanyl, and per­son­al em­pow­er­ment with mon­ey and self im­prove­ment. There are also in­spi­ra tional shows that high­light trail­blaz­ers such as women who are “first” in their field as well as black ex­cel­lence. We also stay in touch with de­vel­op­ments in the grow­ing in flu­ence of His­pan­ics in mu­sic, giv­ing cred­it to chart bust­ing trail­blaz­ers. As a gen­er­al as­sign­ment and break­ing news re­porter, Lisa is known for her “Lisa Evers Ex­clu­sives.” Some­times they’e with emerg­ing celebri­ties like 50 Cent, who gave Lisa his first tele­vi­sion in­ter­view in 2003 and many in­ter­views af­ter that. She was cred­it ed by XXL Mag­a­zine with bring­ing hip hop artists and mu­sic main­stream me­dia at­tention at a time when the cul­ture was not ful­ly un­der­stood or val­ued.

‘Lisa Evers Ex­clu­sives” in­clude many of the big­gest artists in hip hop, in­clud­ing LL Cool J, Jay Z, Suge Knight, Snoop Dogg, the late DMX, Fat Joe, and new­er artists in clud­ing A Boo­gie, Sha EK, and many oth­ers.

There are also ex­clu­sive in­ter­views with peo­ple in the news in­clud­ing politi­cians and po­lice com­mis­sion­ers on their way in or out of of­fice, and per­son­al sto­ries of those fac­ing in­jus­tice and un­usu­al chal­lenges.

“Lisa Evers Ex­clu­sives” also take her view­ers into places where they could not go or see on their own. In 2017, she host­ed and pro­duced a Street Sol­diers Push 4 Peace Town Hall on Rik­ers Is­land with Fat Joe. It was the first time in­mates, cor­rec­tion of­fi­cers and ad­min­is­tra­tors were all in the same room to­geth­er and lis­ten­ing to each oth­er.

In 2022, af­ter the pan­dem­ic shut­down led to a surge in vi­o­lence, Lisa brought her FOX 5 cam­era crew into Rik­ers Is­land to ex­pose bla­tant safe­ty is­sues with the new Correc­tions Com­mis­sion­er Louis Moli­na. She was the first re­porter in­side the rusty barbed wire cov­ered walls and de­cay­ing build­ings af­ter covid re­stric­tions were lift­ed.

In 2024, “Lisa Evers Ex­clu­sives” took view­ers along on dan­ger­ous NYPD gang take­downs. Lisa put on a bul­let­proof vest to re­veal the new ways de­tec­tives were fo cus­ing on ac­tive “trig­ger pullers” in shoot­ings and mur­ders, in­stead of in­dis­crim­i­nate large scale sweeps that stig­ma­tize pri­mar­i­ly stig­ma­tize ur­ban youth of col­or.

Lisa got her start in news work­ing as a free­lance cor­re­spon­dent for the CNN Ra­dio Net­work, which led to a full time staff po­si­tion at 1010 WINS all news ra­dio. She of­ten cred­its her time at 1010 WINS as break­ing news boot camp which pre­pared her for her role at FOX 5 tele­vi­sion.

Pri­or to her me­dia ca­reer, Lisa was a mod­el in New York and Paris with Elite Mod­el Man­age­ment. She was fea­tured on cov­ers and in mag­a­zines in­clud­ing French Vogue, Elle, and Harp­er’s Bazaar.

By night she was a vol­un­teer of the non-prof­it sub­way safe­ty group called the Guardian An­gels, even­tu­al­ly ris­ing to be­come its first fe­male leader. Lisa trained in a hy­brid style of mar­tial arts cre­at­ed by Sen­sei Cha­ka Zulu, and be­came the first woman in the Black Belt Mag­a­zine Hall of Fame.

Through­out her ca­reer, Lisa has done and con­tin­ues to do vol­un­teer work in ur ban ar­eas, fo­cus­ing on youth, women and un­der-re­sourced com­mu­ni­ties. For years she or­ga­nized an an­nu­al hol­i­day par­ty with in­di­vid­u­al­ized gifts for hun­dreds of spe­cial needs and home­less chil­dren in East New York, Brook­lyn.

With a team of vol­un­teers, she also did door to door San­ta de­liv­er­ies for kids in Newark. She’s con­duct­ed Thanks­giv­ing food dri­ves, win­ter coat and cloth­ing dri­ves, and led emer­gency re­lief ef­forts for the sur­vivors of Hur­ri­cane Ka­t­ri­na and Hur­ri­cane Sandy where Lisa and oth­er vol­un­teers got do­nat­ed items and hand­ed them out to the sur­vivors them­selves at spe­cial events they or­ga­nized.

Lisa has also done talks and demon­stra­tions of com­mon sense, prac­ti­cal safe­ty and self de­fense tips for women, so they feel em­pow­ered to pur­sue their dreams. She feels blessed to have re­ceived many awards for her broad­cast news work in clud­ing two Em­mys, a New York State Broad­cast­ers’ Out­stand­ing Award for “Street Sol­diers,” and a re­gion­al RTD­NA Ed­ward R. Mur­row Award.

She has been rec­og­nized for her com­mu­ni­ty vol­un­teer ef­forts with the Black GIrls Rock Com­mu­ni­ty Ser­vice Award, Shirley Chisolm “Woman of Dis­tinc­tion” award, and nu­mer­ous ci­ta­tions from elect­ed of­fi­cials and oth­er or­ga­ni­za­tions. Most of all, Lisa says the best award is when she gets rec­og­nized on the streets for one of her sto­ries or shows and peo­ple shout out com­ments. She speaks French and con­ver­sa­tion­al Span­ish, and hopes to find time in her sched­ule soon to get back on the ten­nis court.