Jon Allan Christensen (born 1960) is an American freelance journalist with a focus of writing about California, from his Venice home in coastal Los Angeles County.
He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor[1] at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, where he periodically teaches a class, Environmental journalism[citation needed], for undergraduate Environmental Science majors at UCLA.
In January 2020 he authored 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.
[2] Christensen was the Executive Director[3] at the Bill Lane Center for the American West and a doctoral student at Stanford University, then quit his PhD History program, when he moved south to Los Angeles County in 2012, to join the staff of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
[9] In 2014, Christensen joined Stamen Design, a data visualization and cartography studio in San Francisco, as a partner in Los Angeles.