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.
Marco Amador
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.
Erin Aubry Kaplan
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.
Marcus Baram
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.
Aaron Cantú
Reporter
Cantú reports on climate issues, including the fossil fuel industry’s influence in both California government and in marginalized communities. In 2023, he won first place awards for Public Service and Investigative Reporting from the California News Publishers Association, as well as a second place award from the Society of 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.
Cerise Castle
Reporter
Castle reports on inequality in California. As an independent journalist, her work includes the 2021 series “A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” and produced as a 15-part podcast. For that project she received the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage In Journalism Award and the American Online Journalism Award for Best Use of Public Records. In 2023 she was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which includes an award of $100,000. Skilled across print, audio and visual media, Castle (IG:@yourmajestcee) has been a producer and correspondent at KCRW and Vice News Tonight.
Jessica Goodheart
Senior Editor
A Capital & Main staff member since 2017, Goodheart leads our inequality coverage. Her stories on labor, housing, homelessness, COVID, elections, corporate accountability and mission-driven businesses have won numerous awards and been co-published in outlets including USA Today, Newsweek, Fast Company, the Guardian, the American Prospect and Salon.com. In 2020, she led a yearlong reporting project on the intersection of economic inequality and the 2020 presidential election that included nearly 100 stories. In 2022, she directed a major reporting series on threats to democracy in that year’s elections. Prior to Capital & Main, she directed research and projects at the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.
Luis Gomez
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.
Steve Marble
Senior Editor
Marble oversees Capital & Main’s climate coverage. An editor at the Los Angeles Times for 24 years, he edited the Times’ series on corruption in the city of Bell, California, that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. 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.
Pandora Young
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.
Robin Urevich
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 and the San Francisco Chronicle. Urevich was also a staff reporter at the Monterey County Weekly. In 2021 she was named Online Journalist of the Year in the Southern California Journalism Awards. In 2018 her stories with Dean Kuipers on Secretary of Labor nominee Andrew Puzder’s record of discrimination and civil rights lawsuits won first place for Business and Financial Reporting in the Best of the West journalism awards.
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.
Jerry Redfern
Reporter
Redfern covers the intersection of the oil and gas industry, state politics and the climate crisis in New Mexico. He previously has 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, the Cambodia Daily and other publications.