Erick Galindo
My background: I’m an award-winning journalist, writer, producer, and editor with more than a decade of experience covering Los Angeles arts and culture, food, and community life. I’ve previously served as Managing Editor at L.A. Taco, where I helped lead the newsroom to a James Beard Award for Journalism, and created and hosted the Telly Award-winning podcast "Idolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sanchez." My reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and LAist, with a focus on hyperlocal Los Angeles journalism and community-powered news in Los Angeles.
What I do: I lead community, culture, and arts coverage across Los Angeles, working closely with freelance writers, partner publications, and community members to surface stories rooted in connecting LA County’s roughly 10 million residents to each other and to the bigger conversations happening at the region, state, and even national level.
Why LA?: I was raised across Southeast Los Angeles and have spent much of my career reporting from and about neighborhoods like East LA, Boyle Heights, Pico-Union, Westlake, Koreatown, Inglewood, and South LA. Los Angeles is a city built on migration, creativity, and reinvention, and I’m passionate about telling neighborhood news across Los Angeles that reflects the people who actually live, work, and build culture here.
The best way to contact me: erick@thelalocal.org
