Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist who writes regularly for the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was the first African American to hold the position of weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She is a former staff writer for the LA Weekly and the author of the books: Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches from a Black Journalista, and I Heart Obama. She lives in Inglewood, California, with her six dogs.
