Morrison’s
Background
Patt Morrison, who pens the weekly "Patt Morrison
Asks" column, is a writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where her work has spanned topics from national
politics and the fall of the Berlin Wall to the O.J. Simpson case, the Gulf
War, and Britain's royal family. She has a share in two of the Los Angeles Times' Pulitzer Prizes, for
writing about the 1992 riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. At the paper,
she's also served as a book reviewer, and as a contributing editor for Los
Angeles Times Magazine.
In her television work, she has won six Emmys and four
Golden Mike awards as founding host and later as commentator on "Life
& Times," the news and current affairs program on KCET-TV.
She was also host and consulting producer on the
nationally syndicated weekly "The Book Show with Patt Morrison," and
for almost 10 years, her commentaries were heard nationally on National Public
Radio's "Morning Edition."
As host of "Patt Morrison" on KPCC radio, she
won six more Golden Mike awards, three of them for Best Public Affairs radio
show. She was on the cover of "Talkers" magazine, the national
magazine for radio talk show hosts, and was ranked in the magazine's
"Heavy Hundred" top radio hosts, the first local public radio host to
be ranked. She created the award-winning and hugely
popular political humor show "Comedy Congress" which airs on KPCC.
Her talk show was canceled in 2012, but she continues as a special
correspondent at KPCC, interviewing such figures as Supreme Court justice Sonia
Sotomayor, and hosting "Comedy Congress."
Among her favorite honors is the fact that Pink's, the
venerable Hollywood hot dog stand, names its vegetarian hot dog after her.
(Patt is a vegetarian; Dame Jane Goodall once told her that the single biggest
difference an individual can make on the world is to stop eating meat.)
She is the author of the best-selling Rio LA, Tales from the Los Angeles River,
and has contributed to a number of anthologies, including the award-winning
collection of mystery stories entitled LA
Noir.
In 2000, she received the Joseph M. Quinn award from the
Los Angeles Press Club for lifetime achievement, the first woman in a
quarter-century to receive that honor. She also has been honored by the
Associated Press Newspaper Editors Association, the Los Angeles Press Club, the
Aviation/Space Writers Association, the National Association of Newspaper
Columnists, the League of Women Voters of Beverly Hills, the American Civil
Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Los Angeles
chapter of Women in Communications and the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles.
Ms. Magazine
named her one of its "Women Who Made a Difference" in a special 2001
issue.
She is the co-author with the Los Angeles Times’ Cecilia Rasmussen of Angels Walk, a series of Los Angeles historical markers and
guidebooks.
She served for eight years as adjunct professor at the
University of Southern California's School of Journalism. She is a graduate of
Occidental College, which named her alumnus of the year in 1995. She was
elected to its Board of Trustees in 1998.
Marymount College is one of two Catholic, four-year
coeducational colleges in Los Angeles County. With campuses along the
picturesque coastline of Rancho Palos Verdes and in the vibrant community of
San Pedro, Marymount College challenges its students to pursue lives of
leadership and service. In the spirit of its founding order, the Religious of
the Sacred Heart of Mary, the College strives to graduate students who embody
the virtues of integrity, respect for human dignity and commitment to justice.
Marymount offers M.S. degrees (pending WASC approval) in Community Psychology
and in Leadership & Community Development; B.A. degrees in Business,
Liberal Arts, Media Studies and Psychology; and A.A. degrees in a variety of
fields.
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