San Diego State University was rocked by a sexual misconduct controversy in 2022. Photo: Pablo Mason Photography, courtesy of SDSU. I spearheaded investigations that uncovered systemic breakdowns in how complaints of sexual misconduct were handled by the nation's largest four-year public university system. The reporting led to reforms and a state...
Farmers in Trinity County, CA, grow some of the most potent weed in the state. Photo: Robert J. Lopez I helped report and write this investigative project that was a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist. The series, which exposed corruption, criminality and worker exploitation in California's legal cannabis industry, won a Gerald...
I spent years chasing the suspicious slaying of Ruben Salazar, a trailblazing journalist who inspired a generation of Latino reporters. (Photo illustration by Martina Ibáñez-Baldor/Los Angeles Times.)...
It's impossible to to talk about Latino leadership in Southern California without discussing Cal State LA and its role in the struggle for equity and inclusion. (Photo: Dolores Huerta at Cal State LA to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies. Credit: J. Emilio Flores/Cal State...
The historic First Baptist Church was once the heart of the Black community in Venice Beach, but it will soon become a massive home for a billionaire family. (Photo: Activists rally to save the First Baptist Church. Credit: Nancy Zubiri)...
In 1968, thousands of Chicano high students walked out of classes in Los Angeles to protest inequity and injustice as part of a civil rights movement that would result in profound change. (Photo: Raul Ruiz)...
As an intern in Congress, I helped enact National Hispanic Heritage Month. Here's the story of how it happened....