Sara Catania is a contributing op-ed writer for the Los Angeles Times and a blogger for LA Observed and The Huffington Post. She teaches journalism at the University of Southern California, where she is helping develop a course on urban ecology. She is at work on a book about the legacy of urban renewal on the South Side of Chicago, for which she received a research grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Catania is the recipient of a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford and a Katrina Media Fellowship with the Open Society Institute. She has been a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, the LA Daily News and the LA Weekly. Her work has appeared in (and on) numerous publications and websites including Mother Jones, California, Legal Affairs, Salon, Asian Week, New America Media, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. For details go to www.saracatania.com.