VoiceWaves: Making Media Waves with Youth Voices
VoiceWaves is a Long Beach youth-led journalism and media-training project. The youth are learning to report, write, and create digital journalism content. One of its graduates, Michael Lozano, is now...
Leadership Long Beach: A Catalyst That Informs, Activates, and Connects
Leadership Long Beach is more than a leadership training program. I should know as an alumnus, former Board of Directors member, and volunteer. The organization which celebrates its 30th Anniversary...
Tasha Hunter Has a Long Checklist and is Working Hard on It.
Tasha Hunter wears many hats in Long Beach. She is the Executive Director of the Uptown Business Improvement District and founder of Wiggins Hunter Consulting Group, President of the Arts Council for...
Navarro Family: Working Hard, Building Dreams and a Legacy
Luis and Brenda Navarro must be the hardest working family in Long Beach. They own and operate three restaurants in the city: Lola’s Mexican Cuisine on 4th Street and in Bixby Knolls and The Social...
Robert Molina of Roxanne’s in Long Beach Knows the Entrepreneur’s Life
Robert Molina, owner of Roxanne’s in Long Beach’s California Heights, cut his teeth early in the business world: fourteen years old to be exact. ” The first thing I got into was promoting...
Aydinaneth Ortiz Has All the Right Ingredients for Powerful Photos
Aydinaneth Ortiz makes very powerful statements with her photography. 70% Isopropyl Alcohol. Sudafed. Acetone. Large photos of each item with a black background that are meant to jump into your face....
Duke Givens Captures the Power of Choice through Photography
Duke Givens is a photographer, documentarian, and social activist who made his life ambition to bring truth to power through his photography. The Long Beach City College alumnus documents that...
Arts Council FOR Long Beach: Foster…Enliven…Enable.
Arts Council for Long Beach (ACLB) has a powerful mission: “foster creativity and culture, enliven communities and enable a thriving creative economy.” Their vision is equally powerful and...