Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is the 2022 L.A. Press Club SoCal Journalism Awards (Race &amp; Society) finalist for her LMU Magazine article “Crowning Achievement,” highlighting the issues Black people face in the workplace for wearing naturally textured hairstyles. The previous year, Janice was selected as a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation 2021 Summer Writers Nonfiction Fellow. A former columnist for the Associated Press, Janice has been published in more than 60 consumer and trade publications including the Los Angeles Times, Ms. Magazine, Shondaland, Essence, EMMY, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she was a senior editor and director of special projects. In addition to her work in journalism, Janice is an author, editor, screenwriter, and social justice advocate. She is an alumna of Loyola Marymount University and the University of Southern California where she received an MA. She’s currently the associate director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC where she is also an adjunct instructor at the Annenberg School’s Specialized Journalism graduate program.

Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn

Cat Moore is the director of belonging at the University of Southern California and an award-winning innovation fellow disrupting a national loneliness crisis. She’s also a speaker, writer, and consultant across sectors, partnering with leaders to create their own belonging ecosystems that prioritize people over profit.

Cat Moore

Haley Griffin received her master’s degree from the University of Southern California, studying Specialized Journalism: The Arts. Earning both a scholarship and fellowship, Griffin worked under the advisement of Professor Su Jung Kim as her personal research assistant. Additionally, Griffin is the music editor and a contributing writer to the university’s arts magazine, Ampersand LA.&nbsp;

Haley Griffin

Madeleine Schulz is an Australian-born, Los Angeles–based writer (with a few stops in between). She has a BA in English with a politics minor from King’s College London. She has a dual master’s degree in global media and communications from USC and interns at and writes for&nbsp;Flaunt&nbsp;magazine.&nbsp;

Madeleine Schulz

Lajja Mistry is a multimedia journalist from India. She received her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. Her work is mainly focused on stories about culture, gender, and the South Asian experience. She is interested in features, profiles, and long-form visual narratives. She is also an avid photographer and is the photo-social editor for Annenberg Media, where she is a regular contributor. Her work has also been featured in the Los Angeles Times and Ampersand.

Lajja Mistry

At Home in Los Angeles

"We all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top." — Hunter S. Thompson

Food & Drink

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Haley Griffin received her master’s degree from the University of Southern California, studying Specialized Journalism: The Arts. Earning both a scholarship and fellowship, Griffin worked under the advisement of Professor Su Jung Kim as her personal research assistant. Additionally, Griffin is the music editor and a contributing writer to the university’s arts magazine, Ampersand LA.&nbsp;