Marina Peña
Producer
Marina Peña is a nationally published writer and producer whose work has been featured on the LA Times, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, KPCC/LAist and NBC Los Angeles, among other outlets. Marina regularly writes for a local finance news site she launched in 2021 called Los Angeles Daily Finance. Most recently, she worked on Wild, a podcast by LAist Studios that was named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by Spotify and The Atlantic. She is passionate about covering the socioeconomic issues that affect underrepresented communities.
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A final report is in the works but we hear from participants in the city's first guaranteed income program about how it impacted them -
Episode 3 explores the history of deputy gangs. We hear a deputy’s firsthand account of working alongside the Banditos gang, and the sheriff defends his handling of the issue.
Stories by Marina Peña
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