Patt Morrison staff

Patt Morrison is best known as a longtime reporter and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where she has won numerous awards, including a share of two Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to the Times, Morrison is read, heard, and seen in many other places. She is a regular commentator on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and has published a best-selling book on the Los Angeles River. She is frequently interviewed about Southern California on the BBC and other television and radio programs, and was a founding host of Life & Times on KCET-TV, for which she won six Emmys and six Golden Mike awards. Among her other honors is the fact that Pink's, the famous Los Angeles hot dog stand, named its veggie dog after her!

Aimee Machado is the senior producer of Patt Morrison. She began her radio career in 1999 as a volunteer for KPCC's Talk of the City. She loves the fast paced nature of the job – every day is different and exciting – and the work suits her curious nature. Aimee also enjoys grabbing her recorder and traveling around Southern California searching out stories of everyday life. Several of her radio pieces have aired on KPCC and radio stations nationwide, including her award-winning documentary, Portrait of Hedab. Aimee was raised in Buffalo (where she learned to appreciate good beer and bad weather) and lived in Baltimore and Chicago for many years before settling in Los Angeles. Whenever she can, she spends time with family and friends in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Janice Watje-Hurst is the proverbial English major run amok. From the popcorn fields of the Midwest to the University of Iowa, with study in the Writers' Workshop; from the music business in New York to production of commercials and print advertising in L.A. – she was the organizer, the production "maven." It was all very exciting and the money was good, but something was definitely missing. Was the product worth the time invested? Hmmm... She loved public radio, listened to it all the time... maybe she could put her skills to work there. She knocked on KPCC's door (stubbornly, several times), became a volunteer, then a fill-in producer for Talk of the City, and finally a full-time producer for Talk of the City and Patt Morrison. She couldn't be happier.

Jonathan Serviss is the "new guy" on Patt's staff. He literally rolled out of his dorm room bed at U.C. Santa Cruz and into the radio industry. Needing an elective and conveniently living right next to the station, he got his start producing and hosting student-run newscasts at KZSC Banana Slug radio, and later hosted a campus political talk show. After getting a taste of the airwaves, Jonathan and two of his best friends created a proudly irreverent afternoon drive-time show called "The Random Show" on commercial AM station KSCO in Santa Cruz. From there he moved north to Bay Area radio powerhouse KGO in San Francisco to produce, write, and research for practically every program and every newscast on the station over a seven year period. Now back home in L.A., Jonathan spends the bulk of his time and effort trying not to screw up his amazing one-year-old son and his marriage to his beautiful wife, both of whom he loves more than anything in the world.