What is Making A Neighborhood?

A weekly newsletter devoted to highlighting what makes a neighborhood. Subscribe for photo essays, interviews, long-form storytelling, book reviews, local histories, portraits of East Hollywood, and reflections on community making that not only document our rapidly changing neighborhood, but connect the struggles and resilience of our area to neighborhoods across the city, state, and country.

Who is Making A Neighborhood?

This newsletter is homegrown and raised by Samanta Helou Hernandez, the multimedia journalist and creator of This Side of Hoover; Jimmy Recinos, a writer, educator, and host of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast; and Ali Rachel Pearl, a writer, teacher, and community organizer.