Brenda Rees is a freelance journalist with decades of experience that showcases her versatility and unending curiosity. She’s written for The Los Angeles Times, Westways Magazine, Arroyo Monthly, Edible San Fernando Valley, Pomona College Magazine and more. She cut her editorial teeth and won awards at The Tidings, a weekly newspaper of the Catholic Archdiocese; she has edited newsletters, simplified complex academic case studies, and created Southern California Wildlife, a blog featuring wildlife issues in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Brenda currently works as a freelance writer and newsletter columnist highlighting people and companies that are making a difference for The Eastsider LA, an online news publication. For more than seven years, she's served as newsletter editor and board member for Friends of Griffith Park, and can finally say that she is able to tell the difference between a crow and a raven.