Ep #12: Facilitating Global Connections and Commerce | Stephen Cheung, President, World Trade Center Los Angeles
As Southern California celebrates World Trade Week (WTW), which for more than 90 years has brought focus to the important role international commerce has played in shaping our region, we're joined by ...
22 Syys 202036min
Ep #11: Advocating for the Arts | Gustavo Herrera, Executive Director, Arts for LA
In California, the Arts contribute an exceptional amount to not only the cultural and creative capital of the state, but to its overall economic activity and well-being. With $650.3 billion in annual ...
16 Syys 202040min
Ep #10: Roses & Lemons, An Inside Look at DTLA | Hal Bastian, Executive Vice President, Major Properties
For nearly 40 years, the Downtown Breakfast Club has served to recognize, foster, and encourage the orderly and planned growth of Downtown Los Angeles. The group consists of individual representatives...
9 Syys 202039min
Ep #9: Revitalizing the Urban Core | Jessica Lall, President & CEO, Central City Association of Los Angeles
Representing just 1% of the land mass of the City of Los Angeles, Downtown LA (DTLA) is emerging, in some sense, as "the Center of It All." Attracting billions of dollars in investment over the past t...
2 Syys 202043min
Ep #8: #Partners#People#Promise | Robert Sausedo, President & CEO, Community Build
Founded in 1992 in the aftermath of the civil unrest in Los Angeles, which witnessed over $1 Billion in economic damage, Community Build came into being with a purpose to empower people, build platfor...
26 Elo 202032min
Ep #7: Ensuring Physical and Economic Mobility | Effie Turnbull Sanders, Executive Director, South Los Angeles Transit Empowerment Zone (SLATE-Z)
With a belief that a child's zip code should never determine her/his destiny; but realizing that the community one grows up in impacts that young person's odds of graduating high school; health outcom...
18 Elo 202053min
Ep #6: Changing Lives and Building Neighborhoods | Mark Wilson, President, CEO/Co-Founder, Coalition for Responsible Community Development
Join Mark A. Wilson, President, CEO/Co-Founder of the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, discussing their work focusing on "changing lives and building neighborhoods responsibly." Since ...
12 Elo 202057min
Ep #5: Closing the Opportunity Gap for the South LA Community | Veronica Melvin, President & CEO, LA Promise Fund (With Special Guest Intro by LA City Councilmember Curren D. Price, Jr.)
Embracing a bold vision to radically improve the future of LA communities by increasing educational equity and ultimately closing the opportunity gap, the LA Promise Fund is a nonprofit organization w...
5 Elo 202058min
