Science Journalist Usha Lee McFarling

I Feel Like I’m Driving Into Paradise Every Day

Usha Lee McFarling is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, who has covered a wide variety of science news, including astrophysics, seismology, neuroscience, medicine, and climate change. She is currently a regular contributor of opinion pieces to the Los Angeles Times and senior editor and writer at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Before moderating a Zócalo/Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County panel titled “Are Americans Turning Against Science?” at the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, McFarling spoke in the green room about her gardening skills, why her children …

November 27, 2019

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Author Edan Lepucki

Twitter Wasn’t Really My Format. I Never Shined; I Just Got Angry All the Time.

November 22, 2019

Edan Lepucki is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels California and Woman No. 17, and the guest editor of Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019. Her fiction and nonfiction have been …

UCLA Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin

I Do a Lot of Things That Are Very Dorky

November 20, 2019

Jeffrey Guhin is an assistant professor of sociology at UCLA. His first book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press, is a comparison of two Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian high …

California Coastline Commission Member Effie Turnbull Sanders

I Climbed Trees, and Got Dirty, and Was Extremely Competitive in Everything I Did

November 15, 2019

Effie Turnbull Sanders is the environmental justice commissioner and member of the California Coastal Commission and executive director of the South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z). Before joining …

Co-Executive Director of UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Sean B. Hecht

Vote. Vote for People Who Have Good Policies

November 13, 2019

Sean B. Hecht is the co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and a professor of policy and practice at UCLA School of Law. He …

Los Angeles Times Environment Reporter Rosanna Xia

Journalism Mobilizes People to Care About Something

November 8, 2019

Rosanna Xia is an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times, covering the California coastline. She writes articles that connect science and policy, and she previously reported on natural disasters. …

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