"#Repost @empowerla Thank you for the shout out for the upcoming #NCCongressLA event on Saturday, September 28th where the new GM Raquel Beltrán will be speaking! @mayorofla @ericgarcetti @davideryu @lacityclerk @cityattorneyla @lacontroller @lwvlosangeles @pat_brown_institute #RaphaelSonenshein  The event where the Mayor and the new GM will speak is open and free to the public. 🔗 is in bio! ・・・ The LA City Council voted unanimously to confirm Raquel Beltrán as our new General Manager! . Raquel - whom many of you Neighborhood Council members have already met at Civic U, as she's the former Associate Director of Cal State LA's Pat Brown Institute for Public Policy - was nominated for the GM role last month by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. . She has also worked with local elections and Neighborhood Councils in her prior role as Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles. . Raquel told the City Council she is ""excited, committed, and ready to serve"" in her new role. Community organizing, she says, is the art of ""helping people become aware of their own capability and potential,"" and she looks forward to being able to help Neighborhood Councils achieve that for themselves — and for the City. . Also on hand to help celebrate: Raquel's husband; her son; and her former colleague - Civic U Program Director and Executive Director of the Pat Brown Institute, Dr. Raphael Sonenshein. . Congratulations and welcome to Raquel! If you haven't yet met her, she'll be a headline speaker at opening session of this year's Congress of Neighborhoods, Sept 28th at City Hall, so please join us there by RSVPing at: http://NCCongressLA.com"
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