Marina Peña
Producer
Marina Peña is a nationally published writer and producer whose work has been featured on the LA Times, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, KPCC/LAist and NBC Los Angeles, among other outlets. Marina regularly writes for a local finance news site she launched in 2021 called Los Angeles Daily Finance. Most recently, she worked on Wild, a podcast by LAist Studios that was named one of the best podcasts of 2021 by Spotify and The Atlantic. She is passionate about covering the socioeconomic issues that affect underrepresented communities.
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A final report is in the works but we hear from participants in the city's first guaranteed income program about how it impacted them
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Episode 3 explores the history of deputy gangs. We hear a deputy’s firsthand account of working alongside the Banditos gang, and the sheriff defends his handling of the issue.
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When — in spite of the scholarships and the degree and the accomplishments — you feel like a fish out of water and wonder if someone’s going to tell you, “I’m sorry, but we made a mistake.”
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Will President-elect Joe Biden go beyond rolling back the Trump administration's controversial immigration policies, and commit to pushing immigration reform legislation?
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Repeat after us: The Latino voting block is not a monolith.
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Assimilation as an immigrant is hard. How do you fit in and stay rooted in the country and culture you're so proud to be a part of? For one Argentine girl, it was a new friend, tastes of home and a whole lot of Harry Potter.
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The union representing faculty at the state's largest university system wants to see changes that include requiring students to take an ethnic studies course, defunding campus police, and offering free tuition to Black and Indigenous students.
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Prom, final hugs with friends and teachers and even graduation itself have been taken away or morphed into experiences which don't resemble the usual rites of passage for the Class of 2020. We wanted to hear from high schoolers -- in their own words and through their own creative works -- about their upended senior year.
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The hospital says they have a very effective infection control committee.