Role: Author

Mark Arax is an award-winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and Rick Wartzman is the paper’s business editor. Arax is the author of the critically acclaimed In My Father’s Name, about his search to find his father ‘s killers. He lives in Fresno. Wartzman was previously with The Wall Street Journal, where for fifteen years he served in a variety of posts, including White House correspondent and founding editor of the paper’s weekly California edition. He lives in Los Angeles.

Maria Armoudian is the host and producer of a radio show called “The Insighters” on KPFK and WPRR. She is a fellow of the Center for International Studies and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.\

Maria Tippett is a cultural historian now living in British Columbia. She was senior research fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and has written biographies of the painter Emily Carr and of F. H. Varley.