Clips
Announcements from City Council Districts 5 and 13
The new Field Deputy is Anais Gonzalez, a graduate of California State University, Northridge, who most recently worked as a Constituent Advocate in City Council District 11. Before that, she was a Scholarship and Volunteer Program Coordinator at the Salvadoran American Leadership and Educational Fund (SALEF). -- Larchmont Buzz
From Youth Worker to Director: Karine Grigoryan Leads Glendale Youth Alliance to New Heights
Karine was one of the latter. She came back to the GYA as a program specialist while she was earning her bachelor’s in business administration at California State University, Northridge. Soon enough, she was promoted to a case manager and later, when she was only 24 years old, she was offered the role of the program supervisor. Since then, with her own growth to the position of executive director, GYA grew more and more, until it ending up serving more than 12,000 youth with various employment programs in retail, food industry, offices and even government. -- Armenian Mirror-Spectator
Virtual Talk on ‘Healthy Choices for the JA Diet’
Nakashima grew up in West Los Angeles and graduated from CSU Long Beach (undergraduate) and CSU Northridge (graduate) with degrees in nutrition. -- Rafu Shimpo
‘We all have the right to choose’: Guatemalans in US will help select next president
Both in Guatemala, a country wracked with violence, corruption and economic inequalities, and in expatriate communities in the U.S., the upcoming elections are stirring a host of anxieties. For Alicia Ivonne Estrada, a Guatemala native and professor of Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge, they give rise to fear and mistrust deriving from her experience in 2019, when she went to the local consulate to vote but wasn’t allowed to cast a ballot. -- Union-Bulletin
Community meetings in the San Fernando Valley, March 20-27
California State University, Northridge’s VITA Clinic Income Tax Preparation: Appointments required for the free sessions, 2-6 p.m., and every Thursday through April 13. Check the website link for details on what you need to bring to an appointment and also the link to make an appointment. Sun Valley Branch Library, 7935 Vineland Ave. 818-764-1338. Details and reservations: bit.ly/3kNvwEu -- Los Angeles Daily News
Game Day: UCLA is only two parts of the college basketball story
It has been an encouraging season for a lot of teams around here. Looking back at expectations in November, of our region’s eight biggest men’s programs that aren’t UCLA and USC, five finished higher in the standings than their conferences’ coaches predicted in preseason polls: Big West co-champion UC Irvine, third-place UC Riverside and fourth-place Cal State Fullerton, as well as Loyola Marymount (an improved fourth in the West Coast Conference) and even CSUN (picked for 11th in the Big West, finished … 10th). -- Los Angeles Daily News
Local student-athletes sign National Letters of Intent
Joshua Martinez, Baseball, Cal State Northridge -- Valley News
Cassy Athena’s NBA photography path: A Nick Young meme, LeBron, the White House and more
During her junior year at Cal State Northridge, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The life-threatening obstacle forced her to reconsider her career aspirations and restart her life. After she recovered, she pursued photography full-time, emerging as one of the best and most well-connected photographers in the NBA world. -- The Athletic
NCAA beach volleyball: Growing pains for Texas; No. 1 TCU plays No. 2 USC
The Longhorns’ inexperienced beach players will take on more of the sport’s top programs Friday and Saturday as one of five teams in an event put on by No. 13 Long Beach State. Others are No. 16 Stetson, CSUN and Utah. -- Volleyball Magazine
Ed Tech Was a Godsend During Pandemic, But It May Have Opened a Pandora’s Box of Data Privacy and Security Issues, Says CSUN Prof
“When the pandemic hit, educators from kindergarten to college were looking for innovative solutions to ensure that students could continue to get access to learning materials, and many of those solutions involved educational technology,” said California State University, Northridge marketing professor Kristen Walker, an expert on technology and data privacy in the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics. “The speed at which those solutions had to occur — the speed at which educators all over began to rely on educational technology — opened a Pandora’s box that could lead to long-term repercussions for students and society.” -- San Fernando Valley Sun