Officer Gutierrez has been on the Santa Barbara P.D. for almost 20 years. While on the force, he has worked to build positive mentoring relationships with teens, the S.B. Police Department, and the community through his work with the Police Activities League of PAL. Gutierrez grew up on the Eastside of Santa Barbara and still calls it home as he continues to care for his community! An amazing interview showing the power of officers who care about their neighbors!
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John Mullen has been a leader in business and an entrepreneur from the beginning. While researching the Mozambique civil war, he read the story of Florencia, a girl who lost her right leg below the knee from a landmine. John and his business partner Douglas set out to help Florencia and many others like her live life normally again. An amazing interview with a powerful story of hope!
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Public service has always been a part of Supervisor Hart's life, as his mother worked as an elementary school teacher and his father served as a library director. Gregg Hart has been a relentless worker for community improvement and the betterment of Santa Barbara resident’s lives!
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Fatima is an incredible fighter. She has an amazing story and has a mindset we all need to hear. Through years of abuse and the loss of a child, most would have given up. Fatima learned to break the chains that bound her and came out the shining light on the brighter side.
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Curt loves sports and believes they can make us better, more connected people. As a basketball coach in America and Europe, he has seen many players and many winning teams. Most recently, he worked as the Indiana Pacers’ talent scout. Amazing man with some great insight!
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Ernesto Paredes has had a lifelong exposure and commitment to the nonprofit community in Santa Barbara and currently serves as the Executive Director of Easy Lift Transportation. Beyond his long tenure at Easy Lift, Paredes has worked with the Future Leaders of America, the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation), the Leadership Council, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation and Special Olympics of Santa Barbara, among others.
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Geoff Green is the CEO of the Santa Barbara City College Foundation which purses the SBCC Promise of tuition free 2-year SBCC education for graduates of local Santa Barbara High Schools. Geoff also serves on numerous non-profit boards around Santa Barbara.
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After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in February 2018, Isabel Hernandez began struggling with her invisible illness. She found that the secrecy surrounding having MS was almost as burdensome as having the disease. She has now found freedom in telling others and has become an advocate for others who are still living with an invisible illness. An amazing story of overcoming and breaking the silence around painful diseases!
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Ralph DeQuebec is 37 years old. He joined the United States Marine Corps at 19. During his third combat deployment, he was critically injured from an IED blast and received a Purple Heart for his actions in combat. During his recovery, he discovered the sport of Para Ice Hockey. He went on to win a gold medal in the 2018 Paralympic games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Ralph is the captain for the Colorado Warrior Avalanche, a co-founder of We Are All One Story and is currently training for the 2022 Paralympic games in Beijing, China.
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Jacob has a younger brother with cerebral palsy, so managing and teaching at an art studio and gallery for artists with disabilities, is right at home for him. Jacob manages the gallery-studio, curates the art openings and teaches classes in basic drawing, landscape painting, abstract painting, color theory, and the principles and elements of art.
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Thomas Tighe has served as President and CEO of Direct Relief, a nonprofit humanitarian medical organization, since October 2000. Since Tighe's arrival, the organization has provided cash grants of more than $120 million and furnished more than $8 billion in essential medicines, equipment, and supplies to support health services for low-income people in over 100 countries and all 50 U.S. states, where the organization conducts the country's largest nonprofit charitable medicines program.
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Judge Carrozzo has had a distinguished career both in the courts and outside of them. After receiving his law degree he became an Army Officer in the JAG Corp. After moving to Santa Barbara, he became a Superior Court Judge and presides over the Veteran’s Court in Santa Barbara County.
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José joined a L.A. street gang when he was sixteen and was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison at the age of eighteen. When he paroled from prison, he vowed to himself that he would never go back and dreamed of one day telling the stories of his peers. At the age of 31 and on the brink of taking his own life, he was able to remember a simple truth that he had believed as a child - that he as a person had inherent value, therefore his story had value. It was in that moment that he was able to find the value in his story once again. Jose is the founder and lead creative of We Are All One Story. He currently travels the country listening to and sharing peoples stories.
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Supervisor Das Williams was elected to represent the First District of Santa Barbara County in June 2016 and took office on January 2, 2017. Das grew up and attended local schools in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. He split his time between his mother who lived Ojai and his father who lived in Isla Vista. Das to develop an interest in local politics and start volunteering on campaigns early on. While a student at Santa Barbara City College, Das developed a passion for politics in classes with his favorite professor, Dr. Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar and travelled to South Africa to work for Nelson Mandela's African National Congress in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994.
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Mike Klan is known as the "Dean" of local sports as he has been covering games and stories for NewsChannel 3 since the mid-1990s. For the past 25 years Mike has been the Executive Producer and Host of the Emmy-Award winning Friday Football Focus. The high school football show is one of the premier prep shows on the west coast, which airs in the fall on NewsChannel 3 and NewsChannel 12. Mike has covered sports on the biggest stage including Super Bowls, the World Series, National Championship football games and the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
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