Libby Leyden-Sussler

Libby Leyden

Alumni

Libby is currently the managing editor of The Press Banner, a weekly newspaper covering the Santa Cruz Mountains. Previously she was the cop and court reporter for The Daily Republic, a local newspaper based in Central South Dakota. She received her Bachelor’s of Art in Journalism from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. During her time at UC Berkeley, she worked as a radio news intern at KQED Public Radio and as a research assistant at the Investigative Reporting Center in Berkeley. Her Master’s thesis was on surfing in a post-apartheid South Africa, where she followed the lives of two non-white female surfers in Cape Town.

Her passion is for local news and community reporting. Follow her on Twitter: @Libby_Leyden

Website: livelaughlearnlibby.org

EMPLOYERS

  • Press Banner, Managing Editor

MEDIA PLATFORMS

Narrative Writing