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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; This year, 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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He Checked Into a UCLA Hospital While Suffering From a Mental Illness, and a Sheriff Shot at Him Nine Times While Trying To Use the Restroom

Professional punk and Editor-In-Chief for James Beard Award-winning L.A. TACO. Associate Producer for JBA-winning Las Crónicas Del Taco. Former restaurant scout for Jonathan Gold. Co-author of &#8220;Oaxaca: Home Cooking From the Heart of Mexico (2019, Abrams) and &#8220;Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling&#8221; (2023, Abrams).

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Community members gather to protest Exide Technologies being allowed to declare bankruptcy and avoid paying for environmental damage done to the communities of East and Southeast Los Angeles cities.

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Residents Throw Bags of Soil at DOJ After Battery Plant in Southeast L.A. Is Allowed To Walk Away Without Cleaning up Its Lead Pollution

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Vernon Battery Plant May Be Able to Walk Away without Cleaning up Lead Thanks to Settlement with Trump DOJ

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These L.A. Institutions Have Been Accepting Money From an Organization That Has Also Funded ‘Anti-Immigration’ and ‘Extremist Hate Groups’

Gabriel Chabrán is a food writer and journalist from Highland Park. He currently lives in Long Beach with his wife Katie, their new baby, and their Russian Blue cat, Mars.

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Tripas are the New Asada: The Crispiest Tripita Tacos in L.A. and O.C in 2020

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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They Import Mom’s Handmade Flour Tortillas from Tijuana Every Week! How Perro 110’s Asada Tacos Invoke the Spirit of Rosarito’s Famous ‘El Yaqui’

Ben Camacho is a photojournalist, visual storyteller and community organizer from Santa Ana, California. When not telling stories, he enjoys film photography, exploring new places, ideas, and perspectives.

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L.A. Is a Ghost Town: Photos From Desolate Streets and Abandoned Landmarks

Memo Torres is a multi-media taco journalist, a third-generation landscaper, host of L.A. Taco&#8217;s new Plant and Gardening column, Yerbalife, host of Apple Maps&#8217; L.A. food guide on all iPhones, Director of Partnerships for the James Beard award-winning L.A. Taco, a finalist for the Ruben Salazar Award for Latino Journalists, a taco scout for numerous shows, can be seen on Netflix&#8217;s Taco Chronicles, Pressure Cooker, Mythical Kitchen, KCRW, and elsewhere.

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This Whittier Taco Shop Sold More Than 1.2 Million Face Masks to First Responders in Three Days

Mariah Castañeda is a feisty multimedia journalist and social media editor.

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A Progressive Daughter of a Taquero Is Coming for Huizar’s City Council Seat

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(Update) Hundreds of Illegal Sidewalk Planters Are Still Displacing the Homeless in L.A., Six Months After the City Council Said They Would Investigate

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