Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College; co-author of Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers, and Their Influence on Southern California and Food Justice: Food, Health, and the Environment; former board member of the Metropolitan Water District
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