Danny Feingold
Publisher
Feingold is the founder and publisher of the award-winning online news outlet Capital & Main, which reports from California on the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues shaping the state and country. Under his leadership, Capital & Main has established itself as one of the best young investigative news publications in the Western U.S. Feingold has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Magazine, Salon and many other publications. He began his career with the Los Angeles-based weekly publication Village View, serving as politics and managing editor. He took a break from journalism in the late 1990s to serve as communications director of the prominent advocacy organization Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, where he oversaw national media and publicity efforts for many landmark public policy campaigns including LAANE’s living wage campaigns and its community benefits agreements, which have been replicated across the country.
Tony Barboza
Executive Editor
Barboza leads Capital & Main’s newsroom and oversees editorial content produced by its team of editors, reporters and contributors. He is a veteran journalist who worked for 18 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter and, later, as a member of the editorial board. His reporting on air pollution, climate change, extreme heat and other environmental issues has won awards and resulted in changes to law and policy. He also serves on the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Contact me
Managing Editor
Young manages all aspects of editorial production including content planning, copy editing and fact checking, photography and awards nominations. She began working for Capital & Main in 2014 and previously worked for MediaBistro and the LA Weekly.
Creative Director and Multimedia Editor
Amador oversees all visual content and creates news videos, podcasts and data visualizations. He produced acclaimed documentaries on military recruitment in the Latino community and Arizona’s 2010 anti-immigration law, SB 1070. He has created multimedia content for international and national publications. For 10 years Amador traveled the United States to establish day laborer centers in major cities, including in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. He is also a musician and has curated music collections from Indigenous and rural artists in Mexico.
Rubit Orozco
Finance and Administration Director
Orozco manages Capital & Main’s administrative operations, overseeing the budget, contractor relations and personnel. She previously held administrative positions at Jobs to Move America, Asociación Cultural de South Bay of Greater Los Angeles, the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles and Bank of America.
Senior Editor
Goodheart oversees inequality coverage at Capital & Main, where she has been a staff member since 2017. As a reporter, she has covered labor, housing, homelessness, business, and politics. As an editor, she has led several major multi-story reporting projects on elections, highlighting economic inequality, organized labor and threats to democracy. Prior to Capital & Main, she directed research and projects at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. Also a poet, her work has been published in Best American Poetry and she is the author of Earthquake Season.
Senior Editor
Marble is a senior editor who oversees Capital & Main’s climate and immigration coverage. An editor at the Los Angeles Times for 24 years, he was an editor on the Times’ series on corruption in the city of Bell, California, that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and helped change state law and policy. He was also a managing editor at both Times Community News and the Daily Pilot. Throughout his career Marble has mentored numerous young journalists who are now top reporters at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and other major news organizations.
Columnist and Senior Editor
Kaplan writes “The Arc,” our column examining the persistent barriers to racial justice and opportunities for progress in an era of receding Black presence in Los Angeles and California. Kaplan, who was the first Black weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and Politico. She is also the author of two books, including I Heart Obama, an extended essay about the cultural and personal meaning of the first Black U.S. president.
Senior Reporter
A reporter with more than 20 years’ experience, Urevich joined Capital & Main in 2019. Partnering with ProPublica, she produced investigations that showed how the city of Los Angeles has failed to enforce affordable housing laws. She has also written for Capital & Main on immigration and the “digital divide” of inequitable access to technology in communities and schools. She previously reported for Southern California Public Radio and National Public Radio, and her work has appeared in the Guardian, PBS’ Frontline a
Senior Reporter
Baram writes “The Heat” column on climate and the 2024 election, as well as working on long-term reporting projects on the financing of fossil fuel production and on the impact of extreme wealth. He has worked as a reporter at ProPublica, the New York Daily News and as an editor at Capital & Main, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Observer, in addition to freelance writing for the New Yorker, the New York Times, New York magazine and Fortune magazine. In 2021, he was awarded a McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism and received a grant from Type Investigations to write and report a four-part series on the erosion of the overtime wage rule. His critically acclaimed 2014 biography of the late Gil Scott-Heron, “Pieces of a Man,” was named a notable book by the New Yorker.
Reporter
Cantú reports on energy issues, including the fossil fuel industry’s influence in California government and the effects of pollution and climate change on marginalized communities. His work for Capital & Main has been nominated for a dozen awards and earned top honors from the California News Publishers Association, the Sacramento Press Club, the Los Angeles Press Club, and the Society for Environmental Journalists. He was previously a reporting fellow with Type Investigations, filing stories for outlets including the Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept and Reveal. He is a former staff reporter for the Santa Fe Reporter, editor for the Bail Project and investigative researcher for the Public Accountability Initiative.
Reporter
Video Producer/Reporter
Cerise Castle is a Los Angeles-based journalist covering inequality in California. She wrote the first history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. She also created, produced and hosted A Tradition of Violence, a podcast detailing the history and criminal activity of deputy gangs. That reporting earned her the 2022 International Women in Media Foundation’s Courage Award and the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. Castle has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale University, and led research at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy. She is currently a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Chicago, and working on her forthcoming book on deputy gangs.
Castle has also produced and hosted segments for the Emmy-award winning nightly news program, VICE News Tonight, NPR and nationally syndicated radio program Marketplace, as well as podcast series for Audible, iHeartMedia, and Wondery. Her reporting and commentary have been featured in The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, MTV, and Vanity Fair.
Reporter
Redfern covers the intersection of the oil and gas industry, state politics and the climate crisis in New Mexico. He previously covered environmental and humanitarian issues across Southeast Asia as well as the U.S. In addition to his award-winning stories, Redfern is an accomplished visual journalist; his photographs have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, Der Spiegel and other publications. He is also the producer and director of the award-winning, feature-length documentary Eternal Harvest, about the legacy of the American bombing campaign in Laos during the Vietnam War.
Audience Engagement Director
Gomez manages Capital & Main’s audience engagement work, including social media and newsletters. He joined Capital & Main in 2021 after online and print journalism positions at the San Diego Union-Tribune, Southern California Public Radio, the Institute for Nonprofit News, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the Santa Maria Times, the Naples Daily News and Current.
Jeremy Lindenfeld is a UC Berkeley California Local News Fellow reporting on healthcare, organized labor, public lands and immigration for Capital & Main. In addition to writing original stories, he also produces photo and video work for Capital & Main’s website and social media. His writing and visual journalism has earned multiple awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and has appeared in outlets including ProPublica, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Salon and the Associated Press.
Maison Tran
Tran is a California Local News Fellow working as a video producer for Capital and Main, where he has reported on education, housing and law enforcement. He cut his journalistic teeth as a news assistant for National Public Radio’s Culture Desk, where he produced the Book of the Day podcast and reported on the film industry. During his fellowship, Tran also reported on health inequities and culture for the Long Beach Post. While at Capital & Main, Tran concurrently produced visual stories for Người Việt Daily News, the largest Vietnamese-language newspaper outside of Vietnam.