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Ethan van Thillo, founder and executive director of Media Arts Center San Diego, reflecting on what led him…

During her first 12 months as San Diego’s newest poet laureate, Paola Capó-García organized community events, readings, workshops…

While visiting her dad in Rosarito, Mexico, during a college break in the early 1990s, Robyn Spencer found…

It was during a social event while working at The New Children’s Museum in downtown San Diego that…

Even though wrestling runs in the blood of Carlsbad High School alum Nia Jax, she took a road…

Mike Stevenson, co-founder and head brewer at Culver Beer Company, has been around beer most of his life.…

Strong women in Kareen Holstrom’s family have influenced her leadership journey, including becoming president of San Diego State…

Paris Landen said she arrived at El Cajon’s concert venue, The Magnolia, by accident. “It’s all a big…

While she worked part-time as a restaurant server or bartender, in addition to working as a high school…

Javier Ayala, dean of career and workforce development at Grossmont College and a Lemon Grove resident, remembers the…

For the past 36 years, Judit Hersko has lived in South Park and experienced its transformation firsthand. “Certainly…

When Point Loma native Kira Karmazini was in business school at the University of Michigan, she and her…