Lindsey Nichols, originally from Strasburg, Colorado, is a recent graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minors in business and political science. Her coverage for the CU Independent, the student news media site, has spanned local government issues and education legislation to political pieces and religious stories. She received a Hearst Journalism Award for a story about a hipster priest in Boulder. She interned for Rep. Brian Babin at the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., for the University of Colorado Board of Regents, and with the PAC-12 Network in Boulder.