Speaking
Lise Olsen continues to speak about her book CODE OF SILENCE for professional groups, classes, conferences, libraries and book clubs in 2024. Events for her new book, THE SCIENTIST AND THE SERIAL KILLER, begin in April 2025. Contact Lise at liseolseninvestigates@gmail.com about scheduling an event for your book club, library or organization.
Videos
Lise appears in the three-part true crime documentary series the Pillowcase Murders, debuting May 14 on Paramount plus.
The series reveals shocking details of how the thefts and murders of more than two dozen senior citizens in Dallas suburbs were downplayed or covered up and he nearly got away undetected...
Lise Olsen discussed rogue federal judges with whistleblower Cathy McBroom, whose story is featured in CODE OF SILENCE, and San Antonio commentator Rick Casey at the San Antonio Book Festival. Watch it on C-Span. 
Events
| Event | Date | Location | |
| Investigative Reporting Now Online class at the UT Austin's Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Sign up now! Click here event information Read blog post |
September 23 - October 20, 2024 | Online Class | |
| IRE National Conference | June 20-23, 2024 | Anaheim California | |
| Investigative Reporters and Editors training conference | |||
| Baytown Evening with the Author | April 17, 2024 | Sterling Municipal Library | |
| Conversation over a slice of pie with Lise Olsen, Senior Investigative Reporter and Author of CODE OF SILENCE (2021) and the forthcoming book, THE SCIENTIST AND THE SERIAL KILLER! (2025) | |||
| San Antonio Book Festival Conversation with S.C. Gwynne, author of Her Majesty's Airship. Conversation with Megan Kimble, author of the new book City Limits. Signed copies of City Limits (and of CODE OF SILENCE) will be available |
April 13, 2024 | ||
| Online Book Talk Conversation with Lise Olsen and Author Kirk Wallace Johnson about his book, The Fisherman and The Dragon |
October 24, 2023 | Online | |
| AccessFest - IRE's annual virtual-by-design conference. The two-and-a-half-day event will take place online | October 12, 2023 | Online | |
| Boerne Book Festival | October 7, 2023 | Main Plaza-Boerne | |
| Annual TCWLA/TCWLF Grants and Awards Luncheon Lise Olsen will be this year's keynote speaker |
April 20, 2023 | Fairmont Hotel, Austin, Texas | |
| How to Publish a Book Panel discussion with the Texas Ledes, Austin women journalists' group - Private Event. |
April 19, 2023 | ||
| Conversationalist at the 26th Annual Table Talk Luncheon Gender & Sexuality Studies program at the University of Houston |
February 15, 2023 | University of Houston, Houston, Texas | |
| Federal Bar Associaion, Chicago Chapter Featured speaker, Sexual Misconduct in the Federal Judiciary |
February 1, 2023 | Chicago, Illinois | |
| Conversation In conversation with author Steve Weinberg | August 18, 2022 | Columbia, Missouri, Skylark Bookshop | |
| Book Blog Tour Lone Star Literary Life is hosting a Book Blog Tour for CODE OF SILENCE August 3-12 to celebrate the upcoming paperback release! |
August 3 - 12, 2022 | ||
| Discussion of the Non-Fiction Book Process A discussion of the FDU MFA - Creative Writing's residency |
July 29, 2022 | Madison, New Jersey | |
| Conversation Olsen in conversation with George Getschow of Texas Institute of Letters (COS won TIl's nonfiction book award) |
July 18, 2022 | Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, Texas | |
| Conference Lise Olsen spoke and signed books at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference. (CODE OF SILENCE won IRE's 2022 Book Award.) |
June 23 - 27, 2022 | Denver, Colorado |
| San Antonio Book Festival Lise Olsen appeared at the 10th Annual San Antonio Book Festival |
May 21, 2022 | San Antonio, Texas | |
| Texas Institute of Letters annual conference, Winner of the 2022 Texas Institute of Letters' Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Nonfiction |
April 23, 2022 | El Paso, Texas. | |
| San Diego State University journalism school (via Zoom) San Diego journalists & SDSU students join Amy Schmitz Weiss and Arthur Santana for this special, free webinar with investigative journalist Lise Olsen to talk about her book - CODE OF SILENCE |
April 22, 2022 | Zoom | |
| Power up Your Prose Houston-based investigatiive reporter and Author Lise Olsen reads from her new book CODE OF SILENCE and continues the conversation about judges, ethics and Texas women who blew the whistle with Mimi Swartz of Texas Monthly, sponsored by Houston Public Library and Brazos Books |
March 14, 2022 | Houston Public Library, 500 McKinney St., Houston, Texas. | |
| Discussion Author Lise Olsen, originally from Lincoln, discusses her new book CODE OF SILENCE at a live event |
December 4, 2021 | Kaneko Gallery with support from The Bookworm, Omaha, Nebraska. | |
| Panel Discussion Lise Olsen will speak about her book CODE OF SILENCE as part of a panel discussion at the 12th Annual Latin American Conference of Investigative Journalism on Thursday, Dec. 2 on how to investigate sexual harassment and abuse by the powerful from 12- 1 p.m. Central; 1-2 Eastern. Some panelists are gathering in Canelones, Uruguay, but most events can be accessed online |
December 2, 2021 | Online | |
| Book Reading and Discussion Author and investigative reporter Lise Olsen reads from her new book CODE OF SILENCE and discusses judicial ethics in the age of #metoo with Carrie Johnson, NPR's Department of Justice reporter |
November 12, 2021 | Politics and Prose, Washington, D.C. | |
| Virtual Event Lise Olsen in conversation with whistleblower Cathy McBroom and Austin-based journalist and author Megan Kimble |
November 4, 2021 | ||
| Conversation Author Lise Olsen in conversation with author and attorney Lara Bazelon - Bad Judges - Facts and Fiction |
November 2, 2021 | The Booksmith, San Francisco, California via Zoom | |
| Book Discussion Author Lise Olsen, an investigative reporter based in Texas who formerly worked on criminal justice issues in Washington, in conversation with Robert McClure, cofounder InvestigateWest. They will discuss her new book on federal judges, whistleblowers and the secret system that oversees judicial misconduct complaints |
October 19,2021 | Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle Washington - via Zoom |
Author Lise Olsen in conversation with author and attorney Lara Bazelon.
Author Lise Olsen in conversation with Robert McClure.