Features
Nature Nurture
Wendy Butts MBA ’00, CEO of the LA Conservation Corps, talks about the role of nature in nurturing work ethic, confidence and community.
For Gilberto Ramos
Gilberto Ramos, 15, died in a Texas desert on his journey to America. Joseph Ross ’80 penned this poem as tribute.
American Customs
First turned away at Ellis Island, an immigrant family found a way into the U.S. from Canada and helped build America for the next 100 years.
Burning the Roots
In some of California’s farm communities, the education of farmworkers’ children is going up in flames.
Who Are We?
The people of Los Angeles have had many names since 1850, complicating their sense of place. But each is a part of who they are.
Equal Play
Should a child’s access to recreation depend on ethnicity, family income or geography? Renata Simril ’93, CEO of LA84 Foundation, says never.
Looking for Sepulveda
Driving the length of Sepulveda Blvd., a major city arteries, is a sojourn along a border between L.A.’s past and present, and its living and its dead.
Calling All Angels
Whether the Catholic Church will shape the Los Angeles of the future may depend on its ability to call forth our better angels.
Homeless Country
Homelessness may be more like a territory, not a state of life, where we may live, visit, pass through or work.
Capturing What’s Human
The Laband Gallery’s “Judy Dater: Only Human” exhibit is a collection of works spanning the 50-year career of pioneering feminist photographer Judy Dater that explores what it means to be “simply and only human.”