Amanda Yates Garcia is a writer, witch, and the Oracle of Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The London Times, The Believer, CNN, Salon, and more, including a viral appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight. She has led rituals, classes, and workshops on magic and witchcraft at UCLA, UC Irvine, MOCA Los Angeles, The Hammer Museum, LACMA, The Getty, Human Resources, MOCA Tucson, and others. She is the host of the Between the Worlds podcast, and her first book, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch, came out in October 2019, and has been translated into six languages.