Adrienne LaFrance is executive editor of The Atlantic. She was previously editor of TheAtlantic.com. Before joining The Atlantic in 2014, LaFrance was a national reporter for...

Yang Lan is a broadcast journalist and media entrepreneur. The co-founder and chairperson of Sun Media Group and Sun Culture Foundation, she is also the founder and chairperso...

Jakob Lange is a partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) and has collaborated with the architecture and planning firm since 2003. He has been a project leader for several of BIG’...

Kiese Laymon is a writer and the Ottilie Schillig Professor of English and Creative Writing at University of Mississippi. He is the author of three books: Heavy: An American M...

Lauren Leader is co-founder and CEO of All In Together, a nonpartisan organization training American women on civic leadership. She also works with and advises corporations on...

Neil Leibowitz is the chief medical officer at Talkspace, a medical technology company that provides online behavioral-health treatment. In this role, he oversees the quality...

Anthony Leiserowitz is director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a senior research scientist at Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. An ex...

David Leonhardt is an op-ed columnist at The New York Times, where he writes a daily e-mail newsletter and co-hosts a weekly podcast, “The Argument.” He was previously the Tim...

Kate D. Levin is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consulting firm working with mayors to improve quality of life for their citizens, whose client cities in...

Jonathan Levy is vice president of strategic initiatives at EVgo, a nationwide public network of fast chargers for electric vehicles. Previously, he was director of policy and...

Sam Liccardo is the mayor of San Jose, California. He first took office in 2015 and was reelected in 2018 with 76 percent of the vote. Previously, Liccardo served two terms on...

Amanda Little is a journalist writing about the environment and innovation. A professor of investigative journalism and science writing at Vanderbilt University, she authored...

Ana Patrisia Lomeli is a teaching assistant and lead artisan for The Haas Brothers in Lost Hills, CA. A mother of two and wife of a farmworker in California’s Central Valley,...

Yueh-Lin Loo is the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering, a chemical and biological engineering professor, and director of the Andlinger Cent...

Emily Lordi is a writer, professor, and cultural critic whose focus is African American literature and black popular music. She is an associate professor of English at Vanderb...

Taylor Lorenz is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covers tech, Internet culture, and the world of online creators. She writes about the ways technology helps people c...