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Valley 200 – 2024: Adi Livyatan
Livyatan is an agent at brokerage firm Rodeo Realty’s Sherman Oaks office. Specializing in luxury homes, particularly in the San Fernando Valley, Livyatan averages sales over $300 million each year. She has won her company Presidents Circle Elite award a number of years and is one of a very few to win the Chairman’s Award – the highest accolade possible at the firm for her production in 2022 and 2023. She is a graduate of California State University, Northridge, where she originally pursued business law. She embarked on her real estate journey with her husband, initially flipping houses. She continues to specialize in newly constructed properties and collaborates closely with developers. Livyatan is also actively involved in the Jewish community. -- San Fernando Valley Business Journal
FOR THE RECORD
Joseph Ayala, a prospective candidate for Area A on the Simi Valley Unified School board, is a proposal director for a data analytics company and a lecturer at Cal State Northridge. He is not the same person as Joe Ayala, the labor union leader who ran for mayor in 2022, as stated in our article last week listing individuals who pulled nomination papers to run in local races. Also, SVUSD trustee Kareem Jubran was elected for a partial term in 2018; he was not appointed. -- Simi Valley Acorn
CLARISS GUCE POSTS LOW SECOND ROUND IN PORTLAND
Epson Tour member, Clariss Guce saw one of the lower rounds of the day, signing for a bogey-free 66. The 34-year-old has spent time on both the LPGA and Epson Tours this year and feels confident teeing it up amongst the best in the world because of her time and experience on the Road to the LPGA. Friday’s low score saw Guce jump from 17th to a share of fourth, putting the California State University, Northridge alumna in a position to chase the leaders on Saturday and Sunday, something she’s familiar with on the Epson Tour. -- Epson Tour
“Rest in Peace”: Travis Kelce’s Ex Mourns Tragic Death of LeBron James’ Designer as Kayla Nicole Pens Emotional Message for Waraire Boswell
An alumnus of California State University at Northridge, Boswell’s journey began in the bustling halls of talent agencies. “I started thinking about the future,” he once said as per the Hollywood Reporter, “and I realized my business isn’t scalable.” This forward-thinking approach led him from United Talent Agency and William Morris Agency to the quiet corners of his Koreatown workshop, where he honed his craft. -- Essentially Sports
Former Antelope Valley Press writer Semchuck, 75, has died
Semchuck earned an associate degree in communications, media print and broadcast from College of Lake County in Illinois. She studied at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She transferred to California State University, Northridge, where she earned her journalism degree. -- Antelope Valley Press
Valley 200 – 2024: Rebecca Lienhard
Lienhard is the chief executive of Sunland-based Tierra del Sol Foundation, which provides education, workforce development and other assistance to people with developmental disabilities. Since joining the agency in 1990, she has served as the key spokesperson at local, state and national venues. Lienhard is a member of the StandOut Client Advisory board at The Marcus Buckingham Co. and serves on the board of the Valley Economic Alliance. She is also a member of three California Department of Developmental Services Workgroups. She has a Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership from USC and a master’s degree in special education from California State University, Northridge. -- San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Five Potential Candidates Have Pulled Papers for San Fernando City Council
Strickler grew up in Sylmar, received a Bachelor of Arts in communication studies and a minor in journalism from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and recently graduated from Pepperdine University with a master’s degree in social entrepreneurship and change. -- San Fernando Valley Sun.
The comeback queen: actor Joan Chen on self-doubt, success, savagings – and a second chance at 63
By the time she was 18, Chen was one of China’s biggest movie stars after the release of Little Flower and Hearts for the Motherland, both fervently patriotic dramas released in 1979; the latter included a scene in which Chen belted out the (still incredibly popular) song I Love You, China. But in 1981, aged 20, she decided to move to the US to study film-making at California State University, Northridge. -- Richard Hartley
A Harris win would make Doug Emhoff the country’s first first gentleman
Emhoff was born in New York City, was raised in New Jersey, graduated from California State University, Northridge, and attended law school at the University of Southern California. He gave up a lucrative position as an entertainment and intellectual property lawyer to avoid conflicts of interest once Harris became vice president but served as a visiting law professor at Georgetown University after moving to Washington. -- PBS
Clippers To Sign Elijah Harkless To Exhibit 10 Contract
Harkless went undrafted in 2023 after playing five seasons of college basketball with three different schools (Cal State Northridge, Oklahoma and UNLV). As Murray notes, Harkless recently suited up for the Clippers during Summer League action. -- Hoops Rumors