Volunteers of the Month

Archana Dutta‘s first acquaintance with the United States was two years ago at the beginning of her married life, when she landed in Los Angeles. She was teaching at an engineering college for about two years. During that time she … read more

Michelle Costa is a California native. She graduated from Regis University in Denver in 2001 with a degree in Sociology, and joined Teach For America, where she was a corps member in New Orleans teaching 5th- and 6th-grade special education … read more

Lynne Bronstein, journalist, writer, and poet, has written four books of poetry: Astray from Normalcy, Roughage, Thirsty in the Ocean, and Border Crossings. She works as a newspaper reporter for the Culver City Observer, has written for numerous music magazines … read more

Natalay Goldstein is a Los Angeles native and plans to be here forever. She has been passionate about education and especially writing for as long as she can remember. Helping 826LA students with their writing projects has been a dream. … read more

Aziza Abduragimova grew up in beautiful Los Angeles, CA. Her first encounter with 826LA was as a student at Venice High School. Because of 826LA’s kind help with essay writing all those years ago, Aziza gained the opportunity to study … read more

Devon Bixler was raised in Virginia and educated at New York University. In college he studied history and creative writing, which remain his greatest interests. He lives in Los Feliz with his lovely wife Amy, an economist, in an apartment … read more

Joe Daverin is a software engineer raised in Boston, MA. He was trained in the art of using formal languages to distribute cat videos (aka computer science) at UMASS Amherst). He worked on aircraft sensors and underwater robotics in the … read more

Alexi Burgess is a professor of philosophy at Stanford. He and his dad, who is also a philosopher, recently wrote a book together. It’s about truth, and it’s called Truth. Alexi also writes, directs, produces, and acts in plays with … read more

Chris Brandt is an award-winning director, storyboard artist, and assistant director living in North Redondo. He has written, drawn, and directed several of his own projects over the past twenty years (both movies and comic books), most recently garnering critical … read more

Lisa Jan Fogel, aka L.J., has been a copywriter, an online news producer, and the executive director of digital media for a TV network. None of this impresses her as much as the wisdom of fourth graders. L.J. had heard … read more