Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Over the past 20-plus years I've covered a lot of what makes L.A. L.A. — transportation, education, municipal politics and art, and I’ve profiled many of our most creative visual and performing artists.
I’ve found this wide range of reporting experience helps me in my current role as a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering arts and culture.
I was born in Mexico City and grew up in Tijuana and San Diego. I’ve spent a lot of time keeping up my Spanish, and that’s helped me stay connected to my Mexican culture and the cultures of Latin America.
I’ve put in a lot of miles driving around Southern California to report, and that’s led me to love how distinct each neighborhood is: in geography, architecture, warmth and food.
I won the L.A. Press Club’s 2006 Radio Journalist of the Year and other awards. I'm also the host of the Forgotten Revolutionary podcast. I live with my family in Long Beach.
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Activists' appeal for collaboration has gone unanswered as the University of California drafts a plan to open up jobs to undocumented students. -
Cal State says it needs to raise tuition to make up for a funding gap. -
California limits classes in foreign languages, but L.A. community colleges are expanding them as a language justice issue. -
In a region filled with Spanish place names and Spanish speakers, the Spanish language has long been seen as “threatening," and a thing that needs to be “contained.” -
The co-author of a recent report recommends CSU campuses start a top-to-bottom review. One goal: Make campuses less anti-Black. -
As legacy admissions are scrutinized nationwide, private colleges say the practice that considers donor and family ties in admissions isn’t a significant advantage. -
Block steered UCLA since 2007 through state budget crises, national racial tensions, demographic changes, and campus labor unrest. He’s retiring next year. -
In a contentious school board meeting, the state superintendent of instruction was escorted out after defending trans students' privacy rights. -
Registration is way up for the L.A. Public Library's Summer Reading Program — and that signals a COVID-19 recovery, librarians say. -
The ticket was drawn Wednesday night.
