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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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.

“We Have Exhausted All Our Options”: Oakland Teachers May Be the Next to Strike

Leighton Akio Woodhouse — February 1 2019

The expansion of charter schools has been a major contributor to the fiscal crisis in the Oakland Unified School District.

They Rescued Pigs and Turkeys From Factory Farms — and Now Face Decades in Prison

Leighton Akio Woodhouse, Pedro Armando Aparicio, David Zlutnick — December 23 2018

Six activists from Direct Action Everywhere have been charged for rescuing animals from factory farms in Utah.

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