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Barbara Hope Langdon was a leading advocate for victims of domestic violence for nearly 20 years. In 1991, she became the Executive Director of House of Ruth, a Claremont-based organization that supports abused women and children by providing shelter, counseling, intervention, and educational programs. Under Barbara’s leadership, what began as a hotline in a family’s [...]
Victoria Ann Lewis is the founder and former Director of Other Voices, a play and community development program for artists with disabilities. Housed at the Mark Taper Forum until 2005, the program provided national leadership for the disabled arts community through writers’ residencies, reading and performance series, master workshops, and cultural conversations. In 1998, Victoria [...]
Carolyn Reid-Green spent more than 20 years in human services as a clinical psychologist, child advocate, community organizer, and educator. Beginning in 1989, she served as President of the Drew Child Development Corporation (Drew CDC), an organization dedicated to educating and ensuring the well-being of African American and other low-income, at-risk children and adolescents by [...]
Thomas Rhoads founded the Santa Monica Museum of Art (now the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) in 1988 as an international, artist-driven, multidisciplinary art center. Located in a 10,000-square-foot space at Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station, the museum was dedicated to presenting exhibitions of contemporary art and served as an active laboratory that encouraged creativity [...]
Kazue Shibata is the Founder and Executive Director of Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. (APHCV), a full-service health center serving low-income Asian Pacific Islanders in the Metro Los Angeles-Hollywood area. The organization offers basic medical care, immunizations, health services for seniors and children, family planning, women’s care, and HIV testing and counseling. Kazue began [...]
Sandra Bankhead is the former Program Director of the El Nido Family Centers, which provides pregnancy prevention services and counseling for parenting teens. She was also the producer and host of To The Point, a Golden Cable Award-winning program shown on Continental Cablevision, which addressed an array of subjects affecting teens and young adults. As [...]
Elisa Callow served as the founding Executive Director of the Armory Center for the Arts for 12 years. The Center is a community arts organization that encourages broad public participation through innovative approaches to creating, exploring, and presenting visual and performing arts. For more than 25 years, Elisa worked to bring communities together through the [...]
Deborah Ching served as Director of the Chinatown Service Center (CSC) beginning in 1980. CSC provides health care, job training, and social services to immigrant and refugee communities throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Deborah was named 1997 Woman of the Year for State Assembly District 45 and is the recipient of a Eureka Fellowship. [...]
Steve LePore left a career as Human Resources Director at Landmark Entertainment Group to become the Founder and Executive Director of My Friend’s Place, an organization that serves at-risk youth in Hollywood. The organization offers free meals, HIV testing, health care, housing referrals, job training, and counseling to thousands of young Angelenos each year. * [...]
John Malpede is the founding Artistic Director for the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), a theater collective of homeless and formerly homeless individuals. Founded in 1985, LAPD works to build community in Skid Row and to raise public awareness of the “real deal” of life on the streets. Collaborating with drug recovery programs, transitional housing [...]
