Jon Christensen (historian)


Jon Christensen is an American historian and freelance journalist. He is adjunct staff at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He is a currently active polemic in 2020 as shown by authoring an op-ed opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times 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 at Stanford University before moving to UCLA in 2012. He is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in a few major newspapers and a major magazine, such as The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The New Yorker.
In 2014, Christensen joined Stamen Design, a data visualization and cartography studio in San Francisco, as a partner in Los Angeles.