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Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; In 2023, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.

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Man Found Hanging From Tree in Whittier Narrows Wednesday Morning

One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.

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Food

Yangban Society’s ‘Fermented Black Bean Mole’ Proves Asian and Oaxacan Flavors Were Made For Each Other

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Headlines: San Clemente Considers Local Abortion Ban; Burbank Weighing Outdoor Watering Ban

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Nearly Two-Thirds of $1 Billion L.A. COVID Relief Funding Went To Police and Firefighters’ Salaries

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Headlines: Vin Scully Dead at 94; President Biden Endorses Karen Bass For L.A. Mayor

Karina Santellano is a PhD student at USC. She uses the avenue of research and journalism to amplify practices of joy and resistance in Latino communities.

Karina Santellano

A Space For Indigenous and Afro-Mexican Food Wisdom: ‘LA Plaza Cocina’ Is For Everyone

Headlines: Bengal Tiger Charges Into Taquería In Mexico; LAPD Footage Shows Cop Shooting Less-Than-Lethal Round at Downtown Punk Show

Alex Dwyer is a freelance writer living in Exposition Park, where he can be found either eating North African Tacos at Revolutionario, covering LAFC matches at Banc of California Stadium, or drinking Wenshan Baozhong — all the while listening to whatever music Los Angeles in the moment requires.

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