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David Pettit serves as director of the Southern California Air Program, Santa Monica, and is a program staff member of the Natural Resources Defense Council. … read more.
Danny Feingold is Editor-at-Large of The Frying Pan and communications director at LAANE. … read more.
Patricia Castellanos is LAANE's Deputy Director and Director of Ports Project.For the past two years she has been leading LAANE's effort to bring good jobs … read more.
Lisa Derrick has worked as a nightclub columnist and pop culture journalist, and wrote and edited Sacred History Magazine. She also appears frequently on RTE, … read more.
Flor Barajas-Tena is LAANE's Director of Construction Careers Project, leading the LAX Community Benefits Agreement implementation program. She has a master’s degree in urban planning … read more.
Frank Tamborello is the executive director and community educator of Hunger Action Los Angeles. … read more.
Satish Kunisi is the lead researcher for Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE). … read more.
Lalo Alcaraz is the creator of the first nationally-syndicated, politically-themed Latino daily comic strip, “La Cucaracha,” seen in scores of newspapers including the Los Angeles … read more.
Francisco Cendejas is a Research/Policy Analyst for the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. Prior to joining LAANE he’d worked in the labor movement … read more.
Jeremy W. Arnold is a junior at Santa Monica’s New Roads High School. His blog is Public Remedies. … read more.
Jim Lair Beard has worked as a server at the Hyatt Andaz for two years. He is also a writer and actor living in West … read more.
Maria Bustillos’ books include Dorkismo and Act Like A Gentleman, Think Like A Woman. … read more.
Peter Dreier teaches politics and chairs the Urban Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His book, The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A … read more.
Jourdan Clandening is a LAANE communications specialist. … read more.
Donald Cohen is the director of the Cry Wolf Project, a nonprofit research network that identifies and exposes misleading rhetoric about the economy, regulation and … read more.
Jessica Goodheart is LAANE's RePower L.A. Project Director. She has also served as the organization’s Research Director, authoring numerous studies, including evaluations of L.A.’s Living … read more.
Madeline Janis is co-founder and executive director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. She is also a Senior Fellow at the UCLA … read more.
Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist whose posts regularly appear on KCET’s SoCal Focus blog. Her book, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking … read more.
Rita Lowenthal is a longtime activist and author of One-Way Ticket: Our Son's Addiction to Heroin. … read more.
David Mallon, MSW, LCSW, has worked as a psychiatric social worker at Kaiser Downey and Norwalk Behavioral Health Clinic. … read more.
Judith Lewis Mernit is a contributing editor at High Country News. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, Sierra Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Audubon … read more.
Maria Loya is LAANE’s Director of Responsible Hotels Project. Under Maria’s leadership, LAANE succeeded in requiring McDonald’s at LAX to pay a living wage to … read more.
Steven Leigh Morris is the L.A. Weekly’s theater critic-at-large and its Stage Raw blogger. … read more.
Frying Pan editor Steven Mikulan is a Los Angeles writer. … read more.
Vivian Rothstein, a deputy director of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, began her activist career with the Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign of … read more.
Jon Zerolnick is director of LAANE's Clean and Safe Ports Project; he has authored reports including The Road to Shared Prosperity and Foreclosure on Wheels. … read more.
