Before joining L.A. Material, Antonia was the host of LAist’s Imperfect Paradise, where she covered the Palisades and Eaton fires, L.A.’s historic protests against ICE, and more, including the L.A. City Council tape scandal, for which she was a finalist for the Livingston Awards. Before that, she was a producer at Futuro Media, working across award-winning audio programs, including NPR’s Latino USA and Anything for Selena. Her audio work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic. She is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Tomo is a senior at USC, where he writes a newsletter about the school called Morning, Trojan. Before joining L.A. Material, he spent two years reporting for The San Francisco Standard, which involved an epic weekly commute up the Interstate 5.
Creative Director and Co-Founder, L.A. Material
ContactHayes has been a writer/producer for TV shows like Family Guy and Eastbound & Down and has hosted the comedy podcast Hollywood Handbook for more than a decade. He also co-founded a neighborhood homeless services nonprofit and served for three years in L.A. City Hall as a senior advisor to Councilmember Nithya Raman. (Hayes is not involved in L.A. Material’s coverage of Raman or the mayoral race she is currently competing in, and no longer does political work.)
Editor
ContactBefore joining L.A. Material, Jessica was a senior investigations editor at BuzzFeed News and a longtime reporter at the L.A. Times. Her work as a reporter and editor has won numerous journalism awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, a National Magazine Award, and others. She is the author of the nonfiction book The Devil’s Harvest, about criminal justice in the San Joaquin Valley, and the co-host of an award-winning podcast, The Michigan Plot, about the case against the men accused of trying to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Jessica is an avid gardener, frequently at low-level war with squirrels.
Creative Producer
ContactPablo has written for numerous publications including Vulture, The Cut, McSweeney's, and Splitsider and produced projects like Netflix's John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A., Hulu's I Love You America with Sarah Silverman, Amazon's Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, and TikTok's Stapleview. He was a recipient of the National Hispanic Media Coalition TV Series Scriptwriters Fellowship sponsored by ABC & NBC. He was born and raised in Los Angeles.
Senior Reporter
ContactMatt has covered powerful people and institutions in Southern California for more than a decade. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for uncovering, with two colleagues, the sexual abuse of a longtime USC doctor, a series that led to more than $1.2 billion in settlements and criminal charges. He won the 2023 Collier Prize for Government Accountability for revealing failures by the California State Bar to regulate the state’s lawyers and their handling of clients' money. Hamilton earned an undergraduate degree in theology at Boston College and a master's degree in journalism at USC. Before entering journalism, he was a backpacking instructor at a Maine summer camp and a law clerk in Philadelphia.
Contributing Editor
ContactAnna is a writer living in Los Angeles who has published pieces in the NY Times, the New Yorker, Slate and the Atlantic, where she is also a contributing writer. Her third book, “The Power of No,” will be published this autumn by Crown.
Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, L.A. Material
ContactJulia has been leading newsrooms for nearly twenty years. At Slate, she served as editor-in-chief and helped turn the magazine into a podcast and membership powerhouse. Then she helped steer entertainment coverage, digital strategy and business bets for the Los Angeles Times. The teams she’s guided have won the Pulitzer Prize, the Polk Award, National Magazine Awards and Online Journalism Awards, and she serves on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors. She is prone to interrupt conversations to point out interesting birds nearby.
Editorial Director and Co-Founder, L.A. Material
ContactJulia was previously a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she and her colleagues won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for reporting on a leaked audio recording that upended Los Angeles politics. Before that, Wick was the editor-in-chief of LAist. She can get you anywhere in L.A. on side streets without opening a map.
C.E.O. and Co-Founder, L.A. Material
ContactPrior to L.A. Material, Sarah spent six years as C.O.O. at Crooked Media, an audio and subscription based media company, and General Manager of a digital gaming vertical at Disney Interactive. An L.A. native, Sarah is happiest working in her garden and foisting her citrus on people. (And yes, the Wicks are sisters.)