Jean Lotus, Patch Staff

Jean Lotus is a Fort Collins native returning to NoCo. She has most recently been working in the Chicago area, where she wrote and edited for Chronicle Media, Pioneer Local and Wednesday Journal. In 2014, Lotus won the Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor award for best in-depth reporting. She also won two first prize University of Illinois Knight Awards for Investigative Journalism. She has a degree from University of Chicago and is a former daily reporter/night editor for the Lafayette, Ind. Journal & Courier (Gannett).