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Carla Rivera is a former deputy editor for investigations at the Los Angeles Times. She was previously an assistant editor in Metro and reporter who covered higher education. Rivera was a member of the staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the 1992 Los Angeles riots and has covered county government, the homeless on Skid Row, Malibu wildfires and been stung by rubber bullets during the 2000 Democratic Convention. Rivera is an alumna of The Times’ Metpro program (now called the Los Angeles Times Fellowship), which trains early career journalists from diverse backgrounds.

Chris Foster is a former sports writer for the Los Angeles Times who covered UCLA football and basketball, USC basketball, the Kings and the Ducks. He grew up in San Clemente, arriving long before Richard Nixon came to town. As a teen, he surfed, played football and basketball, and fell in love with sports journalism. Foster died Dec. 13, 2023.