Cerise Castle is Los Angeles-based journalist specializing in arts & culture, civil rights, crime, and human interest stories, with several years of experience as a multimedia journalist across print, television, and audio.

Castle wrote the first history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and her reporting on this subject for Knock LA won her NYU’s 2022 American Journalism Online Award for Best Use of Public Records. She has produced and hosted segments for NPR and nationally syndicated radio program Marketplace, and produced podcast series for Audible, iHeartMedia, and Wondery. Her reporting and commentary have been featured in publications like The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine and MTV. In 2022, she was a recipient of the International Women in Media Foundation’s Courage Award, and in 2023, she was awarded the American Mosaic Journalism Prize