Before joining LAist in 2023, I covered L.A. politics, the environment, immigration, and South Dakota's 2023 legislative session for the Associated Press. A lifelong Angeleno, I'm passionate about the intersections between urban affairs, the outdoors, arts and culture, and I'm committed to reporting on the policies, institutions and experiences they intertwine with. My work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. I'm also fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
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Co-owning grocery stores with her ex-husband, Joe Sanchez, she leveraged her connections in the grocery industry to feed striking and boycotting UFW farmworkers in the '60s and '70s. Later, former president Jimmy Carter appointed her to the Unemployment Commission and former L.A. Mayor Tom Bradley appointed her to the Commission on the Status of Women.
Lozano recalls the struggles they both experienced in finding resources to support their journalism, which had prompted Lozano and her husband to create the California Hispanic Publishers Association."I so respected Dolores always staying fiercely true to that mission of being community-oriented and then also understanding that these were businesses," Lozano said."We had to be our own best advocate to make sure that we could raise the resources necessary to continue publishing.