{"id":89465,"date":"2025-12-10T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89465\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:22:38","slug":"chem-e-car-victory-powers-month-of-honors-and-new-titles-at-csulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/89465\/","title":{"rendered":"Chem-E car victory powers month of honors and new titles at CSULB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Student leader earns regional pageant title\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OConnor.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" alt=\"A person wearing a tiara and pageant sash sits smiling in front of holiday lights.\" title=\"Student Jada O'Connor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jada O&#8217;Connor<\/p>\n<p>Jada O\u2019Connor, a fourth-year <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW106840427 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/college-of-business\/accountancy\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">accountancy<\/a> student in the College of Business, has been named Miss Southern California 2026, an honor that reflects her growing commitment to community engagement. Crowned last month in Long Beach, O\u2019Connor serves as treasurer for the <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW106840427 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/csulb.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/bbsa\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Black Business Students Association<\/a> and participates as a college peer advisor in University Outreach and School Relations, where she helps incoming students navigate their path to higher education. She credits her inspiration to compete to <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW106840427 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/alumni\/49-under-49-awardees\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Luong \u201809<\/a>, a former Miss Southern California she met through the Student Leadership Institute course at the <a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW106840427 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/college-of-business\/ukleja-center-for-ethical-leadership\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership<\/a>. Directed by Justin Rudd of the Community Action Team, the pageant program expands O\u2019Connor\u2019s opportunities to serve Long Beach, a city she credited with supporting her journey.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student leader earns regional pageant title\u00a0 Image Jada O&#8217;Connor Jada O\u2019Connor, a fourth-year accountancy student in the College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1818,6758,1820,7,1823,1821,1822,1819,131,133,132,1817,1816],"class_list":["post-89465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-49ers","tag-award","tag-cal-state","tag-california","tag-conoley","tag-csu","tag-csulb","tag-dirtbags","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}