Daniel Michael Hernandez is a Mexican American journalist and author with nearly 20 years of experience working successfully in all areas of the modern media industry. He is currently a reporter for the Styles section of The New York Times.

Daniel's career includes stints as a reporter at a major newspaper (L.A. Times) and alternative weekly (LA Weekly), editor of a monthly print magazine (VICE México), a contributor and host for radio (All Things Considered, The World, KCRW Morning Edition, The Frame), and as a correspondent and producer for television and documentary films (VICE News). Daniel founded one of the earliest general-interest news and culture blogs in Los Angeles, Intersections (2006), and is also author of a non-fiction book based on fieldwork in Mexico, "Down and Delirious in Mexico City" (Scribner, 2011).

A California native, Daniel's work has been seen on premium media platforms including Netflix ("The Day I Met El Chapo"), HBO ("VICE News Tonight on HBO"), VICELAND ("The Munchies Guide to Oaxaca"), and Fusion/ABC ("Tacos de Guisado in Polanco").

For his journalism, commentary, and documentary work, Daniel is recipient of numerous awards and honors. He's lectured at dozens of colleges and universities in the United States and Mexico. Hernandez served as editor of LA Taco between December 2017 and July 2019, where he also hosted the LA Taco Podcast.

Some of his other writing homes have been Gatopardo magazine in Mexico, Art in America, Swallow Magazine, T Magazine, Flaunt, California Monthly, The Guardian, Highline, and many others.

Daniel was born in 1980 in San Diego, where he grew up in the neighborhoods of City Heights, Shelltown, and Southeast. He studied English on a Regents' & Chancellor's scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he served one year as editor-in-chief and president of The Daily Californian.

"I'm interested in the fusion and mixing of all cultures, nations, and borders," Daniel says. "As a storyteller my building blocks were shaped while growing up bilingual and bicultural on the U.S.-Mexico border, in multiethnic barrios. I'm excited by all forms of cultural production, by the intersections that exist between art, society, the sublime, and the streets."

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