John Schmidt
John Schmidt is a PhD student in geography at UCLA, where his research interests include infrastructure, finance, and the law. His master's thesis explored the political economy of powerline-caused wildfires in California.
William Mulholland dried up the Owens Valley when he built the L.A. Aqueduct in 1913. Through the clean energy transition, Los Angeles continues its long history of water and power transformations across the region, with impacts on communities near and far.