Jon Allan Christensen

Jon Allan 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,[1] the San Francisco Chronicle,[2] and The New Yorker.[3]

In 2014, Christensen joined Stamen Design, a data visualization and cartography studio in San Francisco, as a partner in Los Angeles.[4]

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gollark: To avoid data loss.
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References
  1. Christensen, Jon (August 8, 2006). "Unlikely Partners Create Plan to Save Ocean Habitat Along With Fishing". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  2. Christensen, Jon (September 17, 2015). "The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  3. Christensen, Jon (August 20, 2013). "The Hyperloop and the Annihilation of Space and Time". The New Yorker. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  4. "Stamen Design Maps Out Expansion for Leadership in the Field of Data Visualization: Names Jon Christensen as Partner & Opens New Office in Los Angeles; Announces Groundbreaking Social Sense-Making, Environmental & Mass Media Projects". MarketWired. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
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