Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Lelyveld writes City Beat stories for the Los Angeles Times about moments in the life of Los Angeles. She was born in New York and grew up around the world, but has now lived in Los Angeles longer than she’s lived anywhere else. Before joining The Times in 2001, she wrote for the... Read More →

Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He co-hosts “Deadline L.A.” on KPFK, which the press club named... Read More →

Kohli is a reporter covering education for the Los Angeles Times. A product of Southern California, she grew up in Diamond Bar and graduated from UCLA. She worked as a metro reporter for the Orange County Register and as a reporter covering education and diversity for Quartz before... Read More →

Phillips covers K-12 education in Los Angeles. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she wrote about crime and courts for the Tampa Bay Times. She previously covered the New York City public school system for the New York Times and Chalkbeat New York. She grew up in a suburb of... Read More →

Resmovits is an editor and reporter who covers education for the Los Angeles Times. Before that, she spent four years as the Huffington Post’s education reporter. In 2014-15, she was a Columbia University Spencer Fellow. Her writing previously appeared in the Wall Street Journal... Read More →

Watanabe covers education for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the Times in 1989, she has covered immigration, ethnic communities, religion, Pacific Rim business and served as Tokyo correspondent and bureau chief. She also covered Asia, national affairs and state government for... Read More →

Xia covers higher education for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported on disaster preparedness and wrote stories that connected science, infrastructure and policy. Topics included the drought, wildfires, vaccinations and earthquake safety, with an emphasis on buildings at... Read More →