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Tori Edgar

Tori Edgar

Tori Edgar is digital producer for KCET's program, "SoCal Connected", a multimedia journalist and a native of Southern California.

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Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Ron Finley
Finley has turned his property into a thriving community garden, creating a source of free organic produce for a neighborhood where the obesity rates are said to be three times higher than those in West Los Angeles. In 2017, with the help of funds from such organic company supporters and individuals who admired his work such as Nell Newman of Newman’s Own, Bette Midler, Annie’s Organic, Clif Bars and Dr. Bronner’s, Finley bought the property.
Meet KCET Local Heroes Nominee: Ricardo Rosales
Ricardo Rosales is a member of the executive team of Midnight Mission, responsible for overall operation of Homelight Family Living which provides a path for families in crisis to reunify, rebuild and restore their lives.
Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Pete White
A lifelong South Central L.A. resident committed to the fight for human and civil rights, Pete White founded the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN), a grassroots organization working to ensure the human right to housing, health and security are upheld in Los Angeles.
Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Milton Hernandez Nimatuj
Milton Hernandez Nimatuj is the Southern California Program Director for Communities for a Better Environment (CBE). It is one of the preeminent environmental justice organizations in the nation, with a mission to build people’s power in California’s communities of color and low-income communities to achieve environmental health and justice.
Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Meymuna Hussein-Cattan
Meymuna Hussein-Cattan and her mother, Owliya Dima, co-founded The Tiyya Foundation in 2010, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing community support for families of refugees, low-income immigrants, and displaced Americans in the Orange County and Greater Los Angeles regions.
Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Louis Tse
Louis Tse became inspired to start Students 4 Students (formerly known as Bruin Shelter) while a graduate student at UCLA, studying mechanical engineering.
Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Larry Gross
Larry Gross has been working at the Coalition for Economic Survival (CES) for 45 years, since its inception in 1973. CES is a grassroots, multi-ethnic tenants’ rights organization serving low- and moderate-income renters throughout the greater Los Angeles area, committed to organizing tenants to fight to ensure tenants’ rights and preserve affordable housing.
Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Kelly Lytle Hernandez is a UCLA Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA and the Interim Director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA - considered one of the nation’s leading historians of race, policing, immigration, and incarceration in the United States.
Meet KCET Local Hero Nominee: Jim Hannon
Jim Hannon founded Beach Cities Cycling Club (BCCC) in 2006, a non-profit corporation that promotes bicycling, fitness and community involvement in the Redondo/South Bay Area comprised of male and female members of all ages and skill levels.
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