About

La Gente Newsmagazine has provided news and opinion of the minority from UCLA since 1971. With the rise of technology, LaGente.org seeks to be more accessible to every-day users, yet still maintain the long-standing tradition of providing a space for community expression. We still want expose the unheard and unseen but this involves YOU, so we invite your opinions and blog entries. Our goal is to provide a local guide to life in Los Angeles for pop culture, music, events and news for the underrepresented.

For over 40 years, we have been serving the Latin community of students, businesses, organizations, activists, educators, professionals, and leaders.

We offer great deals and low rates for our advertisers with special discounts for multi-issue contracts and UCLA campus organizations.

To learn more, please contact the following:
Samantha de la Fuente, Business Manager sfuente@media.ucla.edu
Marissa Ramirez, Advertising Representative mramirez@media.ucla.edu

Want to join La Gente? We are always looking for bright and talented individuals to join our staff. Positions are open in writing, editing, design, photography, illustration, video, cartoonist, street team, event specialist and business/ marketing. Meetings are once a week.

We can update you on the release of the application and answer any of your most pressing questions.

Don’t like commitment? We have no problem with that. Be a contributor and submit articles, artwork, photographs, letters, opinions (really, anything you want), and we’ll consider it for publication!

For questions, feedback, and contributions, e-mail us at: lagente@media.ucla.edu

Where can I get a copy of an issue?

You can pick one up from those beige news kiosks around campus, in your race/gender/social issues/ethnic studies class, at your group organization meeting, or by requesting from lagente@media.ucla.edu.

Where do we get funding?

Where do we get all the moolah to publish the magazine and keep up the costs of running a publication? From the support of readers like you. We’re a non-profit publications (that means we don’t earn any money and we work for free). That’s right. All of our staff members volunteer their time, blood, and sweat so we can all be better informed and critical-thinking people. So we ask that if you enjoyed La Gente–and would like to see bigger, better things for future–please consider a donation of any amount. Buy an advertisement – we have amazing rates. Contact us at lagente@media.ucla.edu To find out more information about how you can help.

We are published with support from Campus Progress/Center for American Progress. Campus Progress works to help young people – advocates, activists, journalists, artists – make their voices heard on issues that matter. Learn more at Campus Progress

Distribution

We distribute on-campus and we’re reaching beyond the UCLA campus.We have and continue to reach a potential audience of over 40,000 students, professors and faculty members, and community members. Plus–our website garners hundreds of hits per month. Oh yeah, we also mail out subscriptions to non-profit organizations and folks in the LA community …FREE OF CHARGE.