Suhauna Hussain is a business reporter covering California labor and workplace issues for the Los Angeles Times. She joined the paper as a reporting fellow in December 2018. She has previously written for the Tampa Bay Times, the Center for Public Integrity, the East Bay Express and the Chronicle of Higher Education and got her start in journalism at Berkeley’s independent student-run newspaper, the Daily Californian. Hussain was raised in L.A. and graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in political economy.
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