The Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee has announced that Robin Abcarian, an award-winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times, will be the guest speaker at its premiere annual fundraising event Cosmopolitics, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov 12 at the Santa Barbara Club.

Speaking just days after the U.S. presidential election, Abcarian will explain why the 2024 campaign ranks as “The Craziest U.S. Election Ever.”

Tickets can be purchased on the SBWPC website.

Abcarian has had a long media career, including as a former beat reporter, feature writer, editor and CNN talk-show guest. She now writes a column about politics and culture that appears twice weekly in the LA Times.

Abcarian has covered the presidential campaigns of John Kerry and George W. Bush (2004), Barack Obama and John McCain (2008), and Obama and Mitt Romney (2012).
           
She has written about women, politics and feminism, criticizing the criminalization of women’s health-care choices, as well as some politicians’ take on postmenopausal women.

Abcarian’s work fits well for SBWPC, whose mission is to support feminist causes and candidates.

Having wide-ranging interests, Abcarian has also covered the Oscars, the Sundance Film Festival, New York Fashion Week and California’s Proposition 64, which legalized cannabis.
                      
She’s been nominated twice for a Pulitzer Prize and has won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Distinguished Journalist Award, among other honors.
           
Abcarian lives in Venice Beach, California.