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Santa Perez is a published author, mother, and self-advocate living with cerebral palsy in Las Vegas, Nevada. She currently serves as Chair of the Nevada Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities and sits on numerous councils and committees, including the Executive Board of National Association of Council on Developmental Disabilities. Perez is also the Founding Member and President Emeritus of People First Nevada. She recently published her first book, Sitting at Eye Level: My Life as an Advocate, a Professional, a Woman, a Mom and a Person with a Significant Disability. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Cal State Northridge. She is a proud mother to her son, Noah. -- Hampton Roads Messenger

King earned a doctorate of education in educational leadership from Cal State Fullerton, where her dissertation focused on the role of community college faculty and staff in creating academic achievement for Black men. She also has a master’s degree in education from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from Cal State Northridge. -- Times of San Diego

Wilson is a Cal State Northridge (CSUN) business graduate and All-America football player, moved to the San Fernando Valley from Alabama when he was 10 years old. Raised by a single mother and grandmother in the San Fernando Valley, he attended church weekly in Los Angeles and married his bride 48-years ago in a church on the corner of Manchester and Broadway. -- LA Post

My wife and I share a past that spans continents and tracks back to the Polish-Ukrainian border. Eighty-two years ago, during a frigid winter, both sets of our grandparents made the same escape from eastern Poland, ahead of the Nazis’ occupation. They crossed the River Bug, and found their way to what is today Lviv, Ukraine. -- Olean Times Herald