Lylee Gibbs is a third year photojournalism student at Southern Illinois University, planning to graduate in May of 2026.
Currently, Lylee is in her third year working at The Daily Egyptian, SIUs independent student newspaper where she leads the newsroom as Editor-in-Chief. She is a reporting fellow in the Saluki Local Reporting Lab working on long-term stories in Alexander County, Illinois: The county that lost the largest percentage of its population in the nation between the last two censuses.
