Conversations

Ron Galperin holds the office of Controller of the City of Los Angeles, a post to which he was first elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. As controller, he is the paymaster, auditor and chief accounting officer for the…

Derrick Gathers, brother of Hank Gathers, why Hank was admired as much for who he was off the basketball court as he was for what he accomplished on the court.

LMU’s William D. Parham talks about grief’s impact on professional athletes.

Jessica Levinson ’01, LLS ’05, an expert on the Constitution, analyzes the politics of impeachment.

Elie Miller discusses her work helping people with the collateral consequences of felony convictions.

Adrien Perez ’16, who terrorized WCC opponents as an LMU attacker for men’s soccer, scored his first MLS goal for LAFC in this first start for the team earlier this season. He talks about life as a pro and what he’s learning on one of the best teams in Major League Soccer.

Mayor Eric Garcetti says that for Los Angeles homelessness is the “the moral and humanitarian crisis of our time.”

A professor of design talks about design in one of the world’s creative capitals, Los Angeles.

Solving homelessness will require good design as well as more housing stock. This designer is working on it.

A long-distance runner describes how her competitiveness helped her not care about pain.