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Janette Villafana is an award-winning bilingual multimedia journalist. Her heart lies in community-based reporting, and her work is highly centered on showcasing and uplifting community voices, with a significant focus on the Latino community. She developed her beat at L.A. TACO, covering street vending communities in Los Angeles. Past work has been featured on NBC, LAist, Latino Rebels, and more. She is currently featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington in an exhibit titled “¡De última hora! Latinas Report Breaking News.”

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This Immigrant Mom From Jalisco Inspired Her Youngest of Seven to Turn Their Old Banquet Hall Into a Fashion Boutique

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Headlines: Two Killed in Willowbrook Shooting; LAPD Seeks Subsidized Rent For New Recruits

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

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East L.A.’s ‘Chola Fashion Show’ Reclaimed OG Barrio Fashion

Cesar Hernandez is Lynwood&#8217;s second best export behind Weird Al, and a writer and podcaster. Illustration by Tommy Gallegos.

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The L.A. TACO Guide to the Best Birria de Res (Beef) Tacos In Los Angeles, Mapped – BIRRIA WEEK

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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Five Itineraries for Exploring Los Angeles While Stoned Out of Your Mind

Mike Sonksen aka Mike the PoeT is a 3rd-generation Los Angeles native. Poet, professor, journalist, historian and tour-guide, his latest book &#8220;Letters to My City&#8221; was just published by Writ Large Press. He teaches at Woodbury University.

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Remembering DJ Al Jackson, the Voice of the Soul Children

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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Here’s Every Single Experimental Taco Served at Bee Taquería’s ‘Taco Omakase’ In West Adams Right Now

Ben Mesirow is an Echo Park native who writes TV, fiction, food, and sports. At one time or another, his writing has appeared in The LA Times, Litro, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Los Angeles Magazine, and scratched into dozens of desks at Walter Reed Middle School.

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Wake and Roast: The L.A. TACO Guide to Finding the Best Low-Key Local Coffee Beans

Tiffany Lauren is a Los Angeles native, NYU alum, and lover of tacos and mezcal. Her work has also been featured in Latina Magazine.

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