Canoga Park is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles,California. Before the Mexican–American War,the district was part of a rancho,and after the American victory it was converted into wheat farms and then subdivided,with part of it named Owensmouth as a town founded in 1912. It joined Los Angeles in 1917 and was renamed Canoga Park on March 1,1931,after Canoga,New York.
Warren Minor Christopher was an American lawyer,diplomat and politician. During Bill Clinton's first term as president,he served as the 63rd United States Secretary of State.
Anthony David Blankley was an American political analyst who served as press secretary for Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and as a regular panelist on The McLaughlin Group. He later became an executive vice president at Edelman,a Washington,D.C.-based public relations firm.
Karen Ruth Bass is an American politician,social worker and former physician assistant who has served as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Bass previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2022 and in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010,serving as speaker during her final Assembly term.
David C. Bohnett is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation,a non-profit,grant-making organization devoted to improving society through social activism.
Kim Anita McLane Wardlaw is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1998. She is the first Hispanic American woman to be appointed to a federal appeals court. Wardlaw was considered as a possible candidate to be nominated by Barack Obama to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Eric Esrailian is an American physician at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also an Emmy-nominated film producer and is active in charity and community service activities in Los Angeles.
The David Bohnett Foundation is a private foundation that gives grants to organizations that focus on its core giving areas –primarily Los Angeles area programs and LGBT rights in the United States,as well as leadership initiatives and voter education,gun violence prevention,and animal language research. As of 2022,the foundation has donated $125 million to nonprofit organizations and initiatives.
Sydney Kai Kamlager-Dove is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 37th congressional district since 2023. A Democrat,she previously served in the California State Senate,representing the 30th district. She has also served in the California State Assembly and as a trustee for the Los Angeles Community College District.
Mary H. Nguyen-Nodelman is an American journalist and attorney. The investigative journalist and Emmy nominated reporter has worked at various ABC,NBC and Fox Television stations across the country. Nguyen is also known as the first Asian-American Miss Teenage America,owned by 'TEEN Magazine
The 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election was held on November 8,2022,to elect the mayor of Los Angeles,California. A top-two primary was held on June 7,2022. Candidates could win the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote,but no candidate received a majority. More than forty candidates formed committees to run. Twenty-seven filed their declaration of intention to collect signatures for the ballot,and of these twelve qualified.
Michael Nelson Feuer is an American politician and lawyer,who served as Los Angeles City Attorney from 2013 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,Feuer previously served three terms in the California State Assembly,representing the 42nd Assembly District,and as a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1995 to 2001,representing the 5th Council District.
The 2021–2022 session is the most recent former session of the California State Legislature. The session first convened on December 7,2020 and ended November 30,2022.
Chon A. Noriega is an American art historian,media scholar,and curator. Noriega is professor of cinema and media studies at UCLA School of Theater,Film and Television. He was also the director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) from 2002 to 2021.
JusticeLA is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to stopping the expansion and growth of the Los Angeles County Jail system and replacing that system with an infrastructure of community-based care and treatment. L.A. County has the largest jail system in the world.
The 2022 Los Angeles elections were held on June 7,2022. Voters elected candidates in a nonpartisan primary,with runoff elections scheduled for November 8,2022. Eight of the fifteen seats in the City Council were up for election while three of the seven seats in the LAUSD Board of Education were up for election. The seat of Mayor of Los Angeles was up for election due to incumbent Eric Garcetti's term limit. The seats of the Los Angeles City Controller and the Los Angeles City Attorney were also up for election,as their incumbents,Mike Feuer and Ron Galperin,were running for mayor and California State Controller respectively.
Hugo Soto-Martinez is an American labor organizer and politician,currently serving as a member of the Los Angeles City Council for the 13th district since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America,Soto-Martinez defeated incumbent Mitch O'Farrell in the 2022 general election.
Heather J. Hutt is an American politician who is currently serving as an appointed councilmember representing the 10th District of Los Angeles since April 11,2023,previously serving for a temporary vacancy from September 2,2022 to March 30,2023. She was previously a candidate for California's 54th State Assembly district in 2021 and served as a California State Director for then-Senator Kamala Harris from 2019 to 2020.
Cerise Castle is an American journalist. She received the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award and the American Mosaic Journalism Prize for her investigative series on deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas is an American politician and a member of the California Senate. A Democrat,she has represented the 28th Senate District since 2022.
