Lilian Manansala (Page 2)
Los Angeles, CA | AJO '21
During her time at AJO, Lilian served as Social Media Editor and a staff reporter for The Click. She was also a Video Production Fellow at Insider for the News & Documentary Team. She was also one of 30 participants selected out of 500 applications for the first cohort of the Vox Media Writer’s Workshop for Summer 2021.
She is a Los Angeles-based video journalist and writer reporting on the intersections of politics, sociology, gender, equality, and human rights. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, with a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures and an M.A. in American Journalism from New York University.
![Dijon Kizzee protester in front of a line of LA Sheriff Deputies [Photo credit: Michael Ade]](https://theclick.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG_9280-880x540.jpg)
February 23, 2021
Activist Sues LA County for Excessive Police Force
Veteran and activist Cristina Astorga sues LA County Sheriff’s Department and Alex Villanueva for excessive police force and the illegal seizure of her smartphone at Dijon Kizzee protest.
![Photo Edited by Lilian Manansala Race track photo by Suwatwongkham [iStock Getty Images] and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion during 2020 general elections [Lilian Manansala]](https://theclick.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG_0408-1-880x540.jpg)
January 2, 2021
Choosing Process over Policy: The Unavoidability of Horserace Journalism
Horserace journalism dominates election coverage — is that an ethical problem that the media should solve or a natural news and political phenomenon?
![Feature Writing with Julia Dahl [Photo from Lindsay Rogers]](https://theclick.news/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Image-from-iOS-8-880x540.jpg)
January 2, 2021
Looking Back and Moving Forward: The Graduates of New York University’s American Journalism
A tribute to the inaugural class of NYU's American Journalism Program.
December 14, 2020
A Sea That Never Was and the Community That’s Paying for It
Once considered the jewel of the desert, the Salton Sea basin now poses potential health risks to the underserved communities of immigrant farmworkers who call the area home.
November 22, 2020
Commentary: This Atlantic Writer Makes the Case for Victims
The Atlantic's Barbara Bradley Hagerty investigated the stories of sexual assault victims whose whose rape kits remained untested by police.