Marisa Gerber is an enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the Business desk, where she writes narrative stories about economic change in the state and elsewhere, she spent several years writing for the Metro desk. Gerber previously covered L.A. County’s criminal courts for The Times and, before joining the newspaper in 2012, wrote about life on the U.S.-Mexico border. She grew up in Nogales, Ariz., and graduated from the University of Arizona.
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April 7, 2023
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