The LA Local News Initiative
Kayhan Azadi currently serves as the Chief Development Officer at The LA Local News Initiative since July 2025. Previously, Kayhan held the position of Director of Philanthropy and Community Affairs at PATH from February 2023 to June 2025. Prior experience includes serving as Director of the Poly Fund at Polytechnic School from August 2019 to December 2022, Director of Leadership Annual Giving at Cal Poly Pomona from July 2015 to August 2019, and Assistant Director of the Oxy Annual Fund at Occidental College from October 2013 to June 2015. Earlier roles at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona encompassed various positions including Phonathon Coordinator, Annual Fund Assistant, Program Supervisor, Shift Leader, and Student Fundraiser from September 2007 to October 2013. Kayhan Azadi earned a B.A. in Psychology and a Single Subject Teaching Credential in English from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona.
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The LA Local News Initiative
The L.A. Local News Initiative is a newsroom that gives voice and visibility to Angelenos, community by community. The top priority of our journalism is that it represents and serves our neighborhoods, is deserving of their trust, and honors the vibrant collision of ideas that is Los Angeles. As a city, sometimes divided, often united, always evolving, we aim to see LA fully: a collection of neighborhoods of contrasts bound by a common embrace. We are taking a multi-pronged, ecosystem approach to ensure all LA communities have free access to the information they need to be more civically engaged, to thrive and to hold decision makers accountable.