Guest Speaker: Lance Williams, Investigative Reporter

Lance Williams is a veteran investigative reporter.

Working with Mark Fainaru-Wada, Williams broke a series of exclusive stories on the BALCO scandal and earned a string of national honors.

Williams has written on subjects including the California cocaine trade, Oakland’s Black Panther Party, and the career of San Francisco mayor and political power-broker Willie Brown.

His journalism has been honored with the Gerald Loeb Award for financial writing; the California Associated Press’ Fairbanks Award for public service; and, on three occasions, the Center for California Studies’ California Journalism Award for political reporting.

Follow him on Twitter @LanceWCIR.

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