Connecting to the internet became an even greater challenge for Long Beach parents and students with the Covid-19 pandemic and the move to remote education. Families faced difficult choices: access technology to help bridge the digital divide or watch their children fall behind. The Long Beach Center for Economic Inclusion (LBCEI) took on the challenge of a world…
Alfredo Velasco is President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Long Beach. Velasco heads an organization that, according to the organization’s website, encompasses a service area with a population of nearly 850-thousand people, six branches, numerous childcare sites, as well as a number of other facilities. It is an organization that he knows well….
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…
Bob Cabeza has a great story about growing up. I’ve known Bob for nearly ten years and I had no clue about the story. “I was raised on a ranch in northern California outside of Angel’s Camp, California.” That’s above Stockton and below Yosemite. The Vice-President for Community Development for the Greater Long Beach YMCA,…