# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erin-aubry-kaplan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:26:42.849Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erin-aubry-kaplan"
name: "Erin Aubry Kaplan"
slug: "erin-aubry-kaplan"
description: "Erin Aubry Kaplan is a Los Angeles journalist and columnist who has written about black political, economic and cultural issues since 1992. She is a contributing writer to the op-ed section of the Los Angeles Times, and from 2005 to 2007 was a weekly op-ed columnist – the first black weekly op-ed columnist in the paper's recent history. She has been a staff writer and columnist for the LA Weekly and a regular contributor for many publications, including Salon.com, Essence, and Ms. Kaplan is also a regular columnist for make/shift, a quarterly feminist magazine that launched in 2007 and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erin_Aubry_Kaplan_05.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1962-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4494382022471911
  historical:           4.403348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "ايرين اوبرى كابلان"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump