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LAist Staff

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Matt Ballinger

Senior Editor

(he/him)
Julia Barajas

Higher Education Reporter

(she/her)
Jared Bennett

Senior Editor

(he/him)
Ross Brenneman

Senior Editor, Education

(he/him)
Monica Bushman

Producer, LAist Studios

(she/her)
Antonia Cereijido

Host, Imperfect Paradise

(she/her)
Gab Chabrán

Food & Culture Writer

(he/him)
Marcellina Chappelle

Associate Producer, Social

(she/her)
James Chow

Producer, LAist Studios

(he/him)
Natalie Chudnovsky

Senior Producer

(she/her)
Lucy Copp

Producer, AirTalk with Larry Mantle

(she/her)
Austin Cross

Host, Morning Edition, AirTalk Friday, The L.A. Report Morning Edition

(he/him)
Mariana Dale

K–12 Senior Reporter

(she/her)
Matt Dangelantonio

Senior Producer, Daily News

(he/him)
Yusra Farzan

Orange County Reporter

(she/her)
Karina Gacad

Editor, Partner Content

(she/her)
Robert Garrova

Explore L.A. Reporter, Mental Health and Wellbeing

(he/him)
Megan Garvey

Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief

(she/her)
Nick Gerda

Watchdog Correspondent

(he/him/his)
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez

Explore L.A. Correspondent

(he/him)
Kavish Harjai

Transportation Correspondent

(He/him)
Cato Hernández

L.A. Explained Reporter

(they/them)
Josie Huang

Weekend Edition Host/Reporter

(she/her)
Chanelle Berlin Johnson

Director of Audience Engagement

(she/her)
Brandon Killman

Associate Producer, Social

(he/him)
Anjuli Sastry Krbechek

Senior Producer

(she/her)
Brianna Lee

Engagement Producer, Civics & Democracy

(she/her)
Joshua Letona

Associate Producer, Social

(he/him)
Suzanne Levy

Senior Editor, Food, Entertainment, LA Explained

(she/her)
Dana Littlefield

Senior Editor

(she/her)
Rene Lynch

Senior Editor, Orange County

(she/her)
Larry Mantle

Host, AirTalk

(he/him)
Jacob Margolis

Science Reporter

(he/him)
Gillian Morán Pérez

Associate Producer

(she/her)
Nereida Moreno

Host, Midday, The L.A. Report Afternoon Edition

(she/her)
Fiona Ng

Deputy Managing Editor

(she/her)
Julia Paskin

Host, All Things Considered, The L.A. Report Evening Edition

(she/they)
Nicolas Perez

Producer, AirTalk with Larry Mantle

(he/him)
Mary Plummer

Managing Editor, Enterprise

(she/her)
Libby Rainey

Reporter, General Assignment

(She/Her)
Jill Replogle

Correspondent, Orange County

(she/her)
David Rodriguez

Partnerships Producer

(he/him)
Ted Rohrlich

Senior Reporter, on-call

(he/him)
Jordan Rynning

Watchdog correspondent

(he/him)
Sabrina T. Sanchez

Engagement Producer, Early Childhood Education

(she/her)
Aaron Schrank

Reporter, Health and Housing

(he/him)
Makenna Sievertson

Housing and Homelessness Reporter

(she/her)
Frank Stoltze

Civics & Democracy Correspondent

(he/him)
Erin Stone

Climate and Environment Reporter

(she/her)
Kevin Tidmarsh

Producer

(He/Him)
Destiny Torres

General Assignment Reporter, Digital Equity

(she/her)
Tiffany Ujiiye

Editor

(she/her)
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Manny Valladares

Associate Producer, AirTalk & FilmWeek

(he/him)
David Wagner

Housing Reporter

(he/him)
Jason Wells

Managing Editor, Daily News

(he/him)
Lindsey Wright

Senior Producer, AirTalk with Larry Mantle

(she/her)
Elly Yu

Senior Reporter, Early Childhood

(she/her)

Jon Cohn

Vice President, Audience & Community Engagement (he/him)
Tony Federico

Technical Director, Live Programming & Events (he/him)
Rebecca Stumme

Senior Producer, Live Programming & Events (she/her)
Kristin Ranger

Former coordinator, Live Programming & Events (she/her)

Andy Cheatwood

Vice President of Product (he/him)
Brandon Cox

Director, Product (he/him)
Sabir Brara

Project Manager (he/him)
Diana Chu

Team Lead, Software Engineering (she/her)
Melissa DeMund

Front-end Engineer (she/her)
Raymond Xie

Full Stack Engineer (he/him)
Erin Hauer

Visual Designer (she/her)
Peter Hernandez

Associate Product Manager (they/them/he/him)
Kirsten Liu

Data Engineer (she/her)

Alejandra Santamaria

President and CEO (she/her)
Carla Wohl

Senior Vice President of Development (she/her)
Doug Johnson

Vice President, Technology & Operations (he/him)
Jon Cohn

Vice President, Audience & Community Engagement (he/him)
Rob Risko

Vice President of Development and Membership (he/him)
Megan Garvey

Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief (she/her)
Andy Cheatwood

Vice President of Product (he/him)
Jeff Rowe

Vice President of Programming (he/him)
Eric Josten

Vice President, Underwriting Sales (he/him)
Sandra Vazquez

Vice President, Finance (she/her)

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