James Suazo is Associate Director for Long Beach Forward where he oversees communications strategies while providing support to the organization’s multiple initiatives and campaigns. Long Beach Forward is a nonprofit whose vision is to create a healthy Long Beach so that race and income don’t determine one’s future. “…A community where everyone is safe, connected, and…
Latino economic power will be the agenda for the first summit on the subject in Long Beach on November 13, 2018. A wide range of leaders from education, government, nonprofits, as well as neighborhood leaders will gather at the Long Beach Convention Center to, as the organizers describe, “shift the community’s focus from disparities to…
The mission of Palacio Magazine is to engage citizens and provide them a platform where they can share their stories and ideas. We hope that empowers them to join together to transform Long Beach. We recently attended the People’s State of the City and asked attendees one question: What is the one idea that would engage and…
“This non-profit creative agency is empowering youths to create positive change in their community. Live free. Drive smart. Dream big.” For more info on Made in Brownsville, check out their website: https://madeinbrownsville.org/
By Melissa Morgan Three Latina leaders and alumni of Leadership Long Beach sat down in a conference room at Centro CHA for a roundtable discussion. Veronica Garcia Davalos, Vice President at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, Alex Escobar, Long Beach City College’s Office of the President and Jessica Quintana, Executive Director of Centro…
Three Latina leaders and alumni of Leadership Long Beach sat down in a conference room at Centro CHA for a roundtable discussion. Veronica Garcia Davalos, then Vice President at Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, Alex Escobar, Long Beach City College’s Office of the President and Jessica Quintana, Executive Director of Centro CHA spoke…
Hypervisibilities with Sondra Perry: Interacting Artist and Activist Communities This event, developed by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in dialog with Sondra Perry, brings together the work and voices of activists, artists, cultural critics, and public intellectuals to consider how art and activism are shaping one another as visual materials that are…
Watch Dolores Huerta share 5 tips for protesting Trump. “Dolores Clara Fernandez was born on April 10, 1930 in Dawson, a small mining town in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Her father Juan Ferånández, a farm worker and miner by trade, was a union activist who ran for political office and won a seat…
I came across this TEDx talk from a year and a half ago. It’s relevant in light of the recent debates over the Confederate symbols, Black Lives Matter, and our country’s obsession with selective history. 150 Years to the day following the unconditional Confederate surrender to the Union Army, Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore…
Tonia Reyes Uranga told us a story about her first immersion in the world of government. It happened in high school during a summer abroad trip when she got a chance to see the world beyond her life’s borders for a political tour of European countries. “So, I went to The Hague, I went to…