Leighton Akio Woodhouse

Leighton Akio Woodhouse is a journalist and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. His print stories have appeared in The Intercept, Gawker, The New Republic, Newsweek, VICE News, The Nation, and The Awl. He has directed documentary videos for The Intercept, The Nation, KQED, the Fusion Network, and Participant Media. Leighton has a Master’s Degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley.

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Chicken Farming Is the 21st Century’s Sharecropping

Pedro Armando Aparicio, Leighton Akio Woodhouse, David Zlutnick – Jun. 8

Vertically integrated poultry companies that own most of the supply chain trap small farmers into debt — until they lose everything.

In Iowa, Politicians Protect the Meat Industry by Making Animal Rights Activists Criminals

Leighton Akio Woodhouse, David Zlutnick – October 12 2019

Our short documentary tells the story of one undercover investigator whose footage of a pig factory farm is at the center of Iowa’s ag-gag backlash.

Climate CrimesA New Generation of Activists Put Their Bodies on the Line to Defend California’s Forests

Leighton Akio Woodhouse, Pedro Armando Aparicio, David Zlutnick – September 21 2019

In Humboldt County, California, activists prevent logging companies from felling trees by using their own bodies as blockades.

As San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris’s Office Stopped Cooperating With Victims of Catholic Church Child Abuse

Lee Fang, Leighton Akio Woodhouse – June 9 2019

Thanks to Kamala Harris’s predecessor, the San Francisco DA’s office had files on clergy sex abusers. But Harris refused to share them with victims.