Local Hero Honoree Sir Chef Bruno Serato | KCET
Local Hero Honoree Sir Chef Bruno Serato
Sir Chef Bruno Serato was selected for his humanitarian work feeding hungry children and families. The world class Chef, knighted by the Italian Government, is owner of the Anaheim White House Restaurant. Chef Bruno established “Caterina’s Club” in 2005,with an overarching vision that started as preventing children living in motels from going to bed hungry. The program has since expanded to 4,039 children receiving a meal every night at 80 sites throughout L.A., San Diego and Orange County as well as in 27 cities throughout Southern California.
2019 Nominees and Honorees
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Stephen Cue Jn-Marie founded The Row LA – also called “The Church Without Walls” 13 years ago.
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Alison Suffet Diaz is the Founder of Environmental Charter Schools (ECS).
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Alison Suffet Diaz and Stephen Cue Jn-Marie were selected as 2019’s two Local Heroes honorees.
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Stephen Cue Jn-Marie founded The Row LA – also called “The Church Without Walls” 13 years ago. The former Virgin Records rapper turned evangelist, activist and organizer, left the music business in 1994 to follow a religious calling.
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Sam Lewis was recently promoted to Executive Director of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) and previously served as the Director of Inside Programs.
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Godoy was the first in his family to attend college and worked with the Early Academic Outreach Program at the University of California, Irvine to ensure more students of color from underserved communities had access to higher education.
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Past Nominees and Honorees
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Lytle Hernandez, recipient of a 2019 MacArthur 'Genius' Grant, is considered one of the nation’s leading historians of race, policing, immigration and incarceration in the United States.
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The world class Chef, knighted by the Italian Government, is owner of the Anaheim White House Restaurant. Chef Bruno established “Caterina’s Club” in 2005, with an overarching vision that started as preventing children from going to bed hungry.
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Don Larson received LA County Board of Supervisor Commendations “In recognition of dedicated service in the affairs of the community and for the civic pride demonstrated by numerous contributions for the benefit of all citizens of Los Angeles County.”
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Internationally recognized peacemaker and co-founder of Homies Unidos in Los Angeles where he has developed and implemented innovative violence prevention and intervention programs since 1998 and has also led the organization as Executive Director.
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Milton Hernandez Nimatuj was born in Guatamala and raised in Southeast Los Angeles County. He is queer, Maya Cakchiquel and started organizing with CBE’s youth program at the age of 16.
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Arriving in the U.S. during the fall of Saigon, the son of Vietnamese immigrants, Hue Nguyen transitioned from a successful career in the financial services industry & left it all behind to lead GDBRO (Globally Delicious) Burger.
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