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Women's History Month
In our ongoing commitment to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, KCET and Union Bank honor outstanding women who have made significant contributions to improve our community.
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Women's History Month:
After raising five children, earning her bachelor's and master's degrees later in life and losing her husband to Alzheimer's Disease, Billie P. Weiss has applied her perseverance and immeasurable strength to building safer communities as founder, acting director and a steering committee member of the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles (VPC).
Women's History Month:
Bea Cohen is one of the few people alive who witnessed the beginning of World War I in 1914, when, at age four, she and her brother, sister and mother watched while low- flying airplanes dropped bombs on the factories next to her backyard in Buhusi, Romania.
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