Marisa Lagos

Marisa Lagos is a correspondent for KQED’s California politics and government desk and co-hosts a daily show and podcast, “Political Breakdown,” where she sits down with political insiders to dig into policy and politics—and offer a peek into the lives and personalities of those driving politics in California and beyond. At KQED, she also conducts reporting, analysis, and investigations into state, local, and national politics for radio, TV, online, and on stage. In 2022, she co-moderated the only gubernatorial debate in California. In 2020, the Washington Post named her one of the top political journalists in California; she was nominated for a Peabody award and won several other awards for her work investigating the 2017 California wildfires. She has worked at the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, and Los Angeles Times. She is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.