LBCEI, The Long Beach Center for Economic Inclusion, is a community development corporation that has taken on the challenge of expanding inclusive economic opportunities for all communities in Long Beach. It’s mission and values include: Bringing Everyone In An Economy for All Access to Capital Inclusive Opportunity Then, COVID-19 hit and the priorities changed. LBCEI…
PalacioMagazine.com and its predecessor, Palacio de Long Beach, always had a simple goal: to find and tell stories about the people and organizations of greater Long Beach. We featured interviews with elected and non-elected officials, community and business leaders, entertainers, athletes, pretty much anyone who had an interesting story to share about their lives and…
Nancy Lynee Woo is a freelance writer, editor, and creative consultant, and organizer of creative events including community writing workshops and poetry series. She is also an incorrigible optimist and is not shy about admitting it and for good reason. (Her middle name is actually “Lynée” but WordPress won’t let me use it in SEO. My…
Linda Bueno is a teacher at Jordan High School in Long Beach. This past summer she recruited this writer to help her develop a curriculum in American History and U.S. Government (two of my favorite subjects). In the process, I discovered not only the complexity of developing a curriculum for high school students but also…
PalacioMagazine.com will be shutting down in mid-December 2020. Over the next few weeks, we will be spotlighting past stories. A child born in 2015 in Long Beach to immigrant parents in a low-income neighborhood will face many challenges. But, our story on Lafayette Elementary school will show you, there are teachers, parents, and students meeting…
Editor’s Note: PalacioMagazine.com will be shutting down in mid-December 2020. Over the next few weeks, we will be spotlighting stories that have helped bring us to this moment of celebration. More on this soon. By Melina Paris Lafayette Elementary School is a beam of light in a largely immigrant neighborhood on Chestnut Avenue in Long…
Kevin Flores is a Long Beach-based journalist who co-founded the nonprofit independent media platform, Forthe.org. Flores is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured on NPR, Telemundo, and in the Long Beach Press-Telegram. The son of immigrant parents and a graduate of California State University Long Beach, Kevin Flores is interested in producing work…
Carl Kemp of Long Beach knows a lot of people and a thing or two about getting things done. In the time that we’ve known him, we’ve witnessed his meteoric rise through public service and the private sector. Carl Kemp was not afraid to take on life challenges: whether it was in City Hall, the Port of Long Beach or to run for the City Council seat in the fifth district or to startup his own lobbying and…
Laura Som is the executive director of the MAYE Center, a holistic healing center focusing on Khmer Rouge refugees in Cambodia Town. She is also a community leader focusing on empowering residents through civic engagement and activism. Som was inspired to create the healing center following her own journey in self-healing due to the trauma she…
I remember sitting next to a police officer at a fundraising dinner years ago and being impacted by the way he talked about Black Lives Matter with so much disdain and disgust. He didn’t know who I was other than a Black woman sitting at the front of the room at a table of VIPs….