Long Beach Leaders are Readers: Carmen O. Perez, Long Beach Community Leader
Long Beach Leaders are Readers features leaders in our community as they share their recommended reads. In honor of Latino Heritage Month, we are highlighting Carmen O. Perez, a long time community leader in the City of Long Beach! Ms. Perez has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy!
1st of August 2023
Long Beach Leaders are Readers: Ellie Perez, LGBTQ Community Leader and Activist
Long Beach Leaders are Readers features leaders in our community as they share their recommended reads. This month, we have a very special featured leader: LGBTQ Center of Long Beach Interim Executive Director and community leader and activist, Ellie Perez. Ms. Perez has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy! Pride and Joy by Frank J. Sileo
1st of July 2023
Long Beach Leaders are Readers: Long Beach’s First Ever Youth Poet Laureate, Claire Beeli
Long Beach Leaders are Readers features leaders in our community as they share their recommended reads. This month, we have a very special featured leader: Long Beach’s very first Youth Poet Laureate, Claire Beeli. Ms. Beeli has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy! The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed taught me much of what I know […]
1st of June 2023
Long Beach Leaders are Readers: Mayor Rex Richardson, City of Long Beach
Long Beach Leaders are Readers features leaders in our community as they share their recommended reads. This month, we have a very special featured leader in honor of Father’s Day: City of Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson. Mayor Richardson has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy! Fatherhood: Rising to the Ultimate Challenge by Etan Thomas This book is […]
1st of May 2023
Long Beach Leaders are Readers: Julia Huang, CEO of Intertrend Communications
Long Beach Leaders are Readers features leaders in our community as they share their recommended reads. In celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month we’ve asked LBPLF Board Member Julia Huang, Founder and CEO of Intertrend Communications, to be our May feature. Julia has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy! Stay True by Hua Hsu Taiwanese American […]
1st of April 2023
Long Beach Leaders are Readers: Cordelia Howard, Retired Director of Library Services
Long Beach Leaders are Readers features leaders in our community as they share their recommended reads. In celebration of National Library Month we’ve asked Cordelia Howard, (Ret.) Director of Library Services, to be our April feature. Ms. Howard has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy! The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones & “The New […]
14th of March 2023
Long Beach Leaders are Readers Vice Mayor Cindy Allen, 2nd District Councilmember
Long Beach Leaders are Readers features leaders in our community as they share their recommended reads. In celebration of Women’s History Month, we asked Vice Mayor Cindy Allen to be our March feature. Vice Mayor Allen has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy! The Hungry Heart: A Woman’s Fast for Justice by Zoe Ann Nicholson I chose this […]
21st of February 2023
Long Beach Leaders are Readers Uduak-Joe Ntuk, Trustee President, Long Beach Community College District
Long Beach Leaders are Readers is our newest series in which leaders in our community share recommended reads. In celebration of Black History Month, LBCC Trustee Uduak-Joe Ntuk has shared the following reading recommendation. Enjoy! The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee My recommendation is “The Sum of […]