Lizzy Rager

Lizzy Rager is a fourth-year political science and communication major at UC Santa Barbara. She is the lead news editor of UCSB's student-run, independent paper, the Daily Nexus. She was formerly the 2022-23 managing editor and editor-in-chief of the Las Positas College student paper, the Express, and has freelanced with the Independent, Coastal View News, and Tri-Valley TV 30. She has experience covering local government, student activism and higher education. Rager received several awards from the Associated Collegiate Press and the Journalism Association of Community Colleges for her work at the Express, including the ACP 2023 no.2 Reporter of the Year, third-place for best newspaper, and the JACC 2023 Meritorious for Enterprise News.