Defense and Foreign Affairs - Strategic Policy

Grace Peng serves as natural resources director for the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles County. She is an interdisciplinary scientist with a doctorate in chemical physics.

Maggie Miles has been a contributor to The New York Times, BBC, MSN, and many other media outlets. She has focused on topics ranging from workplace corruption and gun violence to travel features and in-depth profiles of notable people and businesses.

Henrique Miguel is a Brazilian graphic designer, electronic music producer, and media theorist. He is currently a research assistant at i2ADS (Research Institute in Art, Design and Society) and pursuing an MFA in Design at the University of Porto.

Kendall is editor and co-founder of The Palm Desert Post, a lifelong Coachella Valley resident, and former producer at NBC Palm Springs. In 2024, she was honored as one of the rising stars of local news by the Coachella Valley Journalism Foundation.

Erin Rode is a freelance journalist based in and from Southern California, where she covers housing, homelessness, the environment and climate change.

Stories with a staff byline are written or edited by a member of the Palm Desert Post staff and are generally shorter or less complex than our more thorough stories.

Dr Assad Homayoun was one of the founding Senior Fellows of the International Strategic Studies Association College of Fellows in 2011, and a member of ISSA since 1982. He broadcast regularly until his death into Iran.

826 Valencia is a nonprofit dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their creative and expository writing skills. Work by students at the Tenderloin Center will occasionally be shared in the Tenderloin Voice.