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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California’s community colleges roll out $115 million in state funds to help campuses create no-cost digital class material. -
LAist first conveyed details of the suspension on Sept. 2. In the two weeks in-between, the teacher's case has garnered national attention.
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First year college students are nearly all moved into their dorms. And that’s left many fathers of first-born sons in need of emotional support.
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Students published the name of a teacher who refused mandatory vaccination. The principal is trying to censor the newspaper.
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The state is allocating more funds to plant trees to protect kids from extreme heat.
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This is what food truck workers are doing to brace themselves for the extreme heat.
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The first Mexican American member of the Los Angeles Unified board, Nava had many critics involved in the 1960s Chicano Movement.
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Student activist Oscar Gomez died under mysterious circumstances in 1994. As I looked into his death, I found parallels to my own life.
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NPR NewsA new podcast — Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary — tells the story of a Chicano student-led protest movement in California, and organizer Oscar Gomez's mysterious death.
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The music of legend Vicente Fernandez reminds SoCal fans of many things: love, our best and worst qualities, and what it means to be Mexican.
