Patrick Range McDonald is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist based in Los Angeles. He has dedicated his career to holding the powerful accountable and giving voice to the voiceless.
McDonald was a longtime staff writer at L.A. Weekly. His pull-no-punches investigative journalism earned him numerous honors, including “Journalist of the Year” from the Los Angeles Press Club and the national “Public Service” award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.
He currently works as an advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
McDonald is the author of Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World and co-writer of Richard J. Riordan's memoir The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles After Riots, an Earthquake and the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial.
