Leslie Layton

Lindajoy is a bilingual writer and teacher and senior editor at ChicoSol. Lindajoy has worked on newspapers in California and in Central America, and as a financial journalist in Mexico City. Lindajoy has Masters degrees in Spanish and journalism and founded Dos Tradiciones, a Mexico-based nonprofit cultural exchange organization, in 1997.
Founding Editor

ChicoSol’s managing editor Leslie Layton is a bilingual journalist who founded ChicoSol in 2007 as a classroom teaching tool while working as an adjunct faculty member in the Chico State University journalism department. Layton has a Master's in Communication from Stanford University. She has guided ChicoSol into its position as a key community news source and a leader in nonprofit journalism.