Carolina A. Miranda is an independent culture writer based in Los Angeles writing about art, design, performance, books and digital life. Until early 2024, she was a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, where she produced in-depth reports on subjects such as the intersection of art and race, how communities are rethinking the nature of monuments, and how architecture is shifting to accommodate a denser L.A. Prior to joining the Times, she was an independent magazine writer and radio reporter producing stories for Time, ARTnews, Architect, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She has been a regular commentator for KCRW and has written for the Atlantic and the New York Review of Books. Miranda is a winner of the 2017 Rabkin Prize in Visual Arts Journalism. She also served as founding co-chair of the Los Angeles Times Guild, the first newsroom union in the Times’ nearly 140 years in existence.