Vanessa Arredondo

Vanessa Arredondo is a reporter and a member of the 2022-23 Los Angeles Times Fellowship class. She is a Chicana born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. Arredondo is a proud product of community college and has interned in various digital newsrooms across California, including CalMatters and NBCLA. Before joining The Times, she was a Hearst fellow at the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a fan of both the Dodgers and the Giants, which some may find strange.

California state Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) speaks on Tuesday, March 28, 2023, before Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill she authored aimed at addressing gas price gouging.

California lawmakers consider banning ‘willful defiance’ suspensions from schools

April 25, 2023 at 8:56 a.m.

Discipline models could be replicated throughout California public schools under legislation sponsored by State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley). Senate Bill 274 would permanently extend the ban on willful defiance suspensions...

The California State Capitol building in Sacramento, Calif.

Now a powerhouse, California’s Latino lawmakers face pressure to broaden political priorities

April 7, 2023 at 7:15 a.m.

When Martha Escutia was elected to the Assembly in 1992, she was one of seven Latinos in the 120-member California Legislature, part of the small but growing Latino Caucus that would eventually become a powerful...

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