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What’s Happening: Aug. 26
Lisa Witchey, 42, of El Dorado Hills, has been appointed to the State Interagency Coordinating Council on Early Intervention. Witchey has been bureau chief for Resources Development and Training Support at the California Department of Social Services since 2017, where she was bureau chief for Operation and Evaluation from 2015 to 2017. Witchey was personnel services manager at the Emergency Medical Services Authority from 2012 to 2015. She was senior liaison at the State Compensation Insurance Fund from 2006 to 2012, where she was assistant claims manager from 2005 to 2006. She earned a master of public administration degree in leadership from California State University, Northridge. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Witchey is a Democrat. -- Village Life
Trackdown Management’s Picking Up the Pieces
Glendale City Manager Yasmin Beers will retire effective in October 2020. Yasmin is closing out a 33- year, She joined the Glendale city staff as an Administrative Assistant in 1995 and began working her way up in the organization. Yasmin was appointed City Manager in February 2018, after working as the Interim City Manager for about a year. She served as President of Soroptimist International of Glendale in 1999-2000. In 2011, the Glendale Chamber of Commerce recognized her as “Woman of the Year.” Yasmin earned a BA in political science from California State University, Northridge, and an MA in organizational leadership from Woodbury University. -- Public CEO
Redefining Blackness: April Bey
As a working artist, Los Angeles-based April Bey uses mixed media to invent worlds of imagination that challenge viewers to examine their own preconceptions about humanity, race and the hiding-in-plain-sight remnants of global colonialism, white supremacy in particular. She is also a tenured professor at Glendale Community College, where she encourages her art students to share their life experiences through their creations while reminding them to seek knowledge independent of the classroom or studio, lessons that she had to teach herself during her own art education at Ball State University and California State University, Northridge. -- The Undefeated
Business Capital (BizCap®) Adds Senior Executive to Team
David has been involved in the commercial real estate and banking industries for nearly 15 years, most recently founding and managing his own debt buying, loan workout and capital raising firm. Prior to this, he was buying and selling non-performing loans and providing consulting services to clients spanning from origination to foreclosures and everything in between. He has transacted over $50MM worth of loan sales to date in his career, heading up divisions of companies engaged in title insurance, commercial loans, publishing and auction services, as well as working in business development at IndyMac Bank. David earned his BS from California State University – Northridge, where he played DIV1 soccer, and his MBA from Baylor University in Texas. David currently lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife and two young boys. He is an avid golfer and fisherman who enjoys the outdoors, exercising and spending time with his family. -- FOX 21 Delmarva
Black developers tell how the US tech industry could do better
Born and raised in California, Phoenix studied psychology and art at California State University at Northridge, where she supported herself with a job at a small Los Angeles-based startup Estify, doing data entry and customer support. -- InfoWorld
‘Death is Everywhere’ Millions More Uyghurs Missing
Born in the Xinjiang city of Aksu, Sidick completed a degree in electrical engineering at Xinjiang University before migrating to the US in the late 1980s, where he obtained a master’s degree in Physics at California State University Northridge and then a PhD in electrical engineering from University of California Davis in 1995. In 2004, he joined NASA, where he works today as a senior optical engineer on the development of a space telescope that can detect habitable exo-planets. -- Byline Times
Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, could also make history
Seven years ago, he was a divorced father of two, managing a respected Century City law firm, Venable, with more than 60 attorneys. He’d been practicing law for two decades. Born in Brooklyn, he moved to California as a teen (he has an older sister and a younger brother) and accumulated strong Southern California bona fides: After attending Agoura High School and Cal State Northridge, he graduated from USC Law School. --The Los Angeles Times
Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, could also make history
Seven years ago, he was a divorced father of two, managing a respected Century City law firm, Venable, with more than 60 attorneys. He'd been practicing law for two decades. Born in Brooklyn, he moved to California as a teen (he has an older sister and a younger brother) and accumulated strong Southern California bona fides: After attending Agoura High School and Cal State Northridge, he graduated from USC Law School. --Yahoo! News
In his final days, Vietnam War medic finds home for his memories at Westminster museum
Greene ended up graduating from Cal State Northridge, where he met his wife Joan. They raised two daughters and have five grandchildren. --Orange County Register
Bret Harte’s Librarian Continues to Spread the Love of Reading on Library Lawn Meetups
Nikki is not new to the Burbank school district, having raised two daughters in the area, both attending Roosevelt, Jordan, and Burroughs. She has been PTA President, founded multiple Booster Clubs, served on the Facilities Oversight Committee, and volunteered for Choir. Her love of story brought her back to school where she received her MFA in Screenwriting from Cal State Northridge. --MyBurbank