Lucy Komisar

Lucy Komisar is a New York City-based investigative journalist and drama critic. She was editor of Mississippi Free Press in Jackson in the early 1960s, covering the civil rights movement and related issues. She was national Vice-President of the National Organization for Women and associate of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press. Komisar has also published three books and won the Gerald Loeb Award for Medium & Small Newspapers for her article, “Keys to the Kingdom: How State Regulators Enables a $7 billion Ponzi Scheme.”