Jon Christensen (journalist) explained

Jon Allan Christensen (born 1960) is an American freelance journalist with a focus of writing about California, from his Venice home in coastal Los Angeles County. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor^[1] at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where he periodically teaches a class, Environmental journalism, for undergraduate Environmental Science majors at UCLA. In January 2020 he authored an op-ed opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times about bulldozing the Ballona Wetlands, which would harm endangered native wildlife and rare native wildflowers, as well as removing living soil.^[2]

Biography

Christensen was the Executive Director^[3] at the Bill Lane Center for the American West and a doctoral student at Stanford University, then quit his PhD History program, when he moved south to Los Angeles County in 2012, to join the staff of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. At UCLA he was the editor of Boom: A Journal of California from 2013^{[4] [5]} to 2016.^[6] He is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in major newspapers and in at least one major magazine, including The New York Times,^[7] the San Francisco Chronicle,^[8] and The New Yorker.^[9]

In 2014, Christensen joined Stamen Design, a data visualization and cartography studio in San Francisco, as a partner in Los Angeles.^[10]

External links

• UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability: Jon Christensen
• Christensen Lab (personal site not at UCLA)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jon Christensen. 22 September 2016.
2. News: Christensen. Jon. Op-Ed: Bickering environmental groups are holding L.A.'s last surviving tidal wetland hostage. The Los Angeles Times. 2020-01-16. 2020-11-30.
3. Web site: Jon Christensen, Former Executive Director. Bill Lane Center for the American West. https://web.archive.org/web/20160323103917/https://west.stanford.edu/people/christensen. 2016-03-23. 2020-11-30.
4. Web site: Veteran journalist and faculty member Jon Christensen new editor of Boom: A Journal of California. UCLA Newsroom. 2013-04-16. 2020-11-30.
5. News: Morrison. Patt. The Los Angeles Times. 2013-10-08. Jon Christensen, the man behind Boom: A Journal of California. 2020-11-30.
6. Sexton. Jason. Boom: A Journal of California. 2016-06-01. From the Editor's Desktop. 6. 2. v-vi. 10.1525/boom.2016.6.2.v. free.
7. News: Christensen. Jon. The New York Times. August 8, 2006. Unlikely Partners Create Plan to Save Ocean Habitat Along With Fishing. 23 October 2015.
8. News: Christensen. Jon. The San Francisco Chronicle. September 17, 2015. The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies. 23 October 2015.
9. News: Christensen. Jon. The New Yorker. August 20, 2013. The Hyperloop and the Annihilation of Space and Time. 23 October 2015.
10. Web site: Stamen Design Maps Out Expansion for Leadership in the Field of Data Visualization: Names Jon Christensen as Partner & Opens New Office in Los Angeles; Announces Groundbreaking Social Sense-Making, Environmental & Mass Media Projects. MarketWired. 23 October 2015.