Erick Galindo

Erick Galindo is an award-winning writer, director, and journalist from Southeast L.A. His work spans TV, film, podcasts, and essays that explore the intersection of identity, culture, and chaos in Los Angeles.
ICE Raids Are Driving Customers Away From L.A. Restaurants, But We Can Still Save Them
How is this one of the toughest years for food businesses in a generation at the exact same time Latino culture is having its biggest, loudest, most mainstream moment in American history? Instead, restaurants, many of which are Mexican—the heart of that culture, the vanguard—are barely hanging on.
December 1, 2025
ICE Raids Delayed L.A.’s Best New Taquería From Opening In Silver Lake. Now It’s Finally Open.
“How could I celebrate when people who feed our city couldn’t even work?” the owner of Taquería Frontera said amidst ICE's siege on L.A.
November 18, 2025

