LA Times Festival of Books 2019

As managing editor, Scott Kraft oversees Metro, California, National, International, Washington, Page One, Column One, Enterprise and Investigations.During more than three decades at The Times, Kraft has been a national and foreign correspondent as well as deputy managing editor/news... Read More →

During a journalism career that spanned almost four decades, Sandy Banks has explored and explained the forces that shape our public conversations and impact our private lives.In 36 years at the Los Angeles Times, she served as a reporter, editorial writer, assistant metropolitan... Read More →

Casey Gerald grew up in Oak Cliff, Texas and went to Yale, where he majored in political science and played varsity football. After receiving an MBA from Harvard Business School, he cofounded MBAs Across America. He has been featured on MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of Fast... Read More →

Randy Shaw is a longtime housing activist and the founder and Executive Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, San Francisco's leading provider of permanent housing to homeless single adults. Over the past four decades Shaw has written landmark laws and ballot initiatives improving... Read More →

Kyle Swenson is a reporter for The Washington Post. A finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, he is also the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting. His work has appeared in The Village Voice, The New Republic... Read More →