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Hellen Hong served as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (now the Survivor Justice Center) for seven years. Located in Boyle Heights, the Center has provided decades of free legal representation, education, and advocacy for the low-income residents of Los Angeles. Hellen has previously served on the Board of Trustees [...]
Nancy Halpern Ibrahim joined Esperanza Community Housing Corporation in 1995 as the founding Director of Health Programs, and has served as Executive Director since 2006. Esperanza works to achieve comprehensive and long-term community development in the Figueroa Corridor neighborhood of South-Central Los Angeles. Beyond Esperanza, Nancy was a founding board member of TRUST South LA, [...]
Mike Lansing is the former Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Los Angeles Harbor, the largest private child development agency in the entire South Bay. Born and raised in San Pedro, Mike is an alumnus of the Club and served on its Board of Directors for three years. He previously founded [...]
John Maceri is the Executive Director of The People Concern, a nonprofit social service agency based in Los Angeles. Formed in 2016 from the merger of the Ocean Park Community Center and Lamp Community, The People Concern strives to empower the most vulnerable among us to improve their quality of life—ensuring they are housed, healthy, [...]
Lisa Watson is the former Chief Executive Officer of the Downtown Women’s Center, which provides permanent supportive housing and other services for women who would otherwise be homeless. Lisa oversaw the administration of a nationally-recognized model program that provides permanent housing and supportive services to thousands of homeless women annually on Skid Row in Los [...]
Rabbi Marvin Gross began his career as a congregational rabbi and became the Chief Executive Officer of Union Station Homeless Services in 1995. A full-service center for the homeless in Pasadena, Union Station provides shelter, transitional housing, and an array of services to help homeless men, women, and children transition to permanent housing and self-sustainability. [...]
Peter Braun is the former Executive Director of the Alzheimer’s Association, California Southland Chapter, which provides support to people with Alzheimer’s disease and their families while advancing research toward prevention, treatment, and a cure. Under Peter’s leadership, the Chapter grew from a two-person office into a multi-site operation that employs dozens and serves thousands across [...]
Alva Moreno is the former Executive Director of the East Los Angeles Women’s Center (formerly Avance Human Services), which launched the first Spanish-language 24-hour crisis hotline for survivors of sexual assault in Southern California in 1976. The Center has expanded its services for survivors of sexual assault to include peer counseling, hospital accompaniment, advocacy, self-defense [...]
James Preis served as the Executive Director of Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. (MHAS), an organization that assists both children and adults. With an emphasis on securing government benefits and services, protecting rights, and fighting discrimination, MHAS provides training and technical assistance to attorneys, mental health professionals, consumer and family member groups, and other advocates. [...]
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 [...]
