Location : HMB Brewing Co, 390 Capistrano Road, Half Moon Bay

We welcome Sandy Close, Executive Director of Pacific News Service and founder of New California Media, to discuss the importance of local journalism for young people and how organizations such as CLAM (Coastal Literary Arts Movement) are vital to our community.

Moderators

Lenny Mendonca is the Chief Economic and Business Advisor to Governor Gavin Newsom of California. He is a Senior Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a Lecturer on Inequality at the Stanford Business School.

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Speakers

Sandy Close started her career covering China and Vietnam as an editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review in the mid-1960s. She became editor of Pacific News Service in 1974 and was a pioneer in developing youth media. In 1996, she founded New America Media, the first and largest collaboration of ethnic news organizations. Her work has received several awards, including a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award” and the 2011 Polk Award for Career Achievement.