Carissa Wolf is a journalist, educator and media activist. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and heard on National Public Radio.

Wolf’s reporting included stints as a researcher for The Wall Street Journal, a public radio producer and a capital city beat reporter. She trained at Sonoma State University’s Project Censored Investigative Journalism Institute and won dozens of journalism awards for her enterprise reports including a Livingston Award nomination for her work at The Idaho Statesman.

Wolf reported for magazines and wire services as a freelance journalist and her articles and investigations regularly appear in alternative news weeklies.

Wolf's past projects include multi-platform, database reporting, a four-hour interview conducted entirely on a whitewater raft and reports dispatched from a Blackhawk helicopter. Her current work includes magazine writing, long-form non-fiction and entrepreneurial journalism. Wolf also teaches sociology, journalism and communication at Boise State University where she co-founded and directs The Idaho Media Initiative.