Introduction
Jon Christensen is an American freelance journalist.He is adjunct staff at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where he teaches an annual course, Environmental Journalism, for undergraduate students.He is a currently active polemic as shown by authoring an op-ed opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times in January 2020 about bulldozing the Ballona Wetlands, which would harm endangered native wildlife and rare native wildflowers, as well as removing living soil.
Biography
Christensen was on the staff at the Bill Lane Center for the American West and a doctoral student at Stanford University, then quit his PhD History program, before moving south to Los Angeles County in 2012, to join the staff of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.He is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in a few major newspapers and in at least one major magazine, including The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New Yorker.
In 2014, Christensen joined Stamen Design, a data visualization and cartography studio in San Francisco, as a partner in Los Angeles.