Peggy Lowe

Peggy joined the Federal Public Defender's office in Kansas in 2026, moving from a long journalism career. Most recently, she was the public safety and justice reporter for KCUR, the NPR station in Kansas City, and before that worked for newspapers in Southern California and Denver. She is the recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow award in 2025 and was on The Denver Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for the Columbine High shootings in 2020. Her investigative podcast, "Overlooked," won first prize from Investigative Reporters and Editors in 2022. 

Peggy also serves as faculty advisor for Roo News, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.