Leslie Andrea Westbrook, a 3rd generation Californian, has lived in Santa Barbara County for most of her adult life. She has written for just about every publication under the Santa Barbara sun, as well as for regional and national magazines, newspapers and websites including Conde Nast Traveler, Jetsetter and the San Francisco Chronicle. Author, newspaper columnist, travel and design writer, Leslie is the author of a recently published 100 year history of Santa Barbara City College and is currently working with jazz composer/arranger Johnny Mandel on his memoir, as well as her own slice-of-life memoir.