“Off Press” — The Podcast of LMU Magazine

Cheryl Grills, professor in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, was appointed to the California state task force tasked with proposing reparations to the state’s Black descendants of enslaved people. She talks about the long-term harms of...

Donegal Fergus, LMU baseball head coach, talks about the impact on NCAA baseball of the transfer portal and NIL issues, as well as how he hopes to develop players for a major league future.

Homelessness has many causes, and Mary Agnes Erlandson ’82 directs a social services center in Lennox, near LMU and LAX, that offers programs addressing many of them. Erlandson describes how focusing on people’s needs, especially housing, can...

Eileen Schoetzow ’98, MBA ’07, an urban and environmental planner for the City of Los Angeles, is part of a team that constructs homeless shelters for unhoused people in Los Angeles. She talks about helping people get off the streets and into...

School was one of the safest places he knew growing up, Kenneth Chancey says. For one thing, he knew he’d get a meal there. Today, he’s left life in a van and a homeless shelter behind, and he’s helping others do the same as a senior manger for...