Lori Ann Guzmán is Assistant City Manager for the City of Huntington Beach and a member of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, the five-member governing body for the Port of Long Beach. With all those credentials and more, she told me a more interesting story about her early life in New York City….
The first word that pops into the mind of Anthony Puente is dedicated. I’ve been asking Palacio Magazine interviewees to describe themselves in one word or sentence. I’m not interested in their physical description. I want to know how they see their own character traits. “I think just, as a business owner or as a…
It was a simple question for Michelle Molina. I asked her to describe herself. “Willing.” I laughed. “It’s not meant to be funny. I suppose it’s one of those words that describes people who, when given opportunity which may to other people appear to be a negative opportunity, I am willing. I’ll give it a…
Jessica Quintana, Executive Director of Centro CHA, reminds me of another community organizer I had the honor to work with during 1968-69. Evelina Lopez Antonetty was a civil rights activist who fought battles with the Education establishment on behalf of parents and children of the Bronx. Like Jessica Quintana, she was dogged in her determination…
Andrea Sulsona is the premiere guest on Voices in Our Heads, a new podcast from palaciomagazine.com. Sulsona is the Executive Director of Early Childhood Education at the Greater Long Beach YMCA. Andrea Sulsona is also the past publisher of our original namesake, Palacio De Long Beach. PalacioMagazine.com recently sat down with Andrea Sulsona in a Bixby…
Editor’s Note: We continue our conversation with Writer-Producer Thomas Fields in this Part Two. I met Thomas Fields more than ten years ago at a networking lunch at the old Frenchy’s Bistro in Long Beach. We would then often meet over the next few years to talk politics, ideas for music and art events, life…
I met Thomas Fields more than ten years ago at a networking lunch at the old Frenchy’s Bistro in Long Beach. We would then often meet over the next few years to talk politics, ideas for music and art events, life and Long Beach. There would be dinners with spouses and visits to each other’s…
Griselda Suarez is very succinct in her self-description. She is “a writer, artist, cook, and a teacher.” According to Griselda, she was born in unincorporated East Los Angeles and “…walked Whittier Blvd and Brooklyn Ave in black and white saddle shoes.” In the podcast, “Voices in Our Heads”, Griselda Suarez talks about growing up in…
Nicolassa Galvez has a description of herself on her website Road to the American Woman. “I am a 38-year old, mestiza, single (that recently changed), passionate, sensitive, childless, beautiful American woman. I wear these labels with confidence and with self-doubt. The term Chingona, which translates to badass woman, has been the label that really sums…