KCET's Local Heroes Awards Cultural Diversity Celebration Airs on Nov. 25 at 8 p.m.
Burbank, Calif. -
Nov. 18, 2013 - KCET, the nation's largest independent public television
station, will broadcast its annual Local Heroes Awards Cultural Diversity Celebration on Nov. 25
at 8 p.m. KCETLink, in collaboration with Union Bank, N.A.,
celebrates diversity all year long by recognizing remarkable individuals in our
community. The Local Heroes initiative culminates with this spectacular
event.
Hosted by actress Tempestt Bledsoe, this year's 90-minute
program celebrates the extraordinary contributions of 12 outstanding community
leaders, with exciting performances by Grammy®-award winning band, Quetzal, New
Directions Veterans Choir and Taiko Center of Los Angeles. The inspirational
program was taped during the live event at Club Nokia at L.A. Live in October.
The program repeats
on the followings days:
Thanksgiving Day, 8
p.m.
Nov. 30, 3:30 p.m.
Nov. 30, 8 p.m.
Dec. 1, 4 p.m.
The 2013 Local Heroes Award honorees include:
Black History Month
Angeles Echols-Brown, Founder,
Education Young Minds
Dr. Richard Allen Williams, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine and President and
CEO, Minority Health Institute, Inc.
Women's History Month
Gail Farber, Director, County of Los
Angeles, Department of Public Works
Belinda Smith Walker, Founding Board
Member, New Village Charter School
Jewish American Heritage Month
Janice Kamenir-Reznik, Co-founder/President,
Jewish World Watch
Harry Corre, Patient
Advocate/Veterans Service Officer, West LA Veterans Administration Medical
Center
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Madame Sosei Matsumoto, Japanese Chado Tea
Ceremony Master, Urasenke School of Chado
Nobuko Miyamoto, Artistic Director and Founder,
Great Leap
LGBT Pride Month
Thomas T. Carpenter, Esq.
Former Co-chair, OutServe-Servicemembers Legal Defense Network
Kalil Cohen
Founder, Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival
Hispanic Heritage Month
Father Richard Estrada, Founder and President
of the Board of Directors, Jovenes, Inc.
Robert García, Founding Director and Counsel, The
City Project
For more information on the honorees or to watch their inspiring video
profiles, please visit www.kcet.org/localheroes.
ABOUT KCET
On-air, online and in the community, KCET plays a vital
role in the cultural and educational enrichment of Southern and Central
California. KCET offers a wide range of award-winning local programming as well
as the finest public television programs from around the world. KCET currently
produces the Emmy®, duPont-Columbia and Peabody Award-winning SoCal
Connected, a hard-hitting prime-time weekly television news program that examines
the issues and people of Southern California. Throughout its 48-year history,
KCET has won hundreds of major awards for its local and regional news and
public affairs programming, its national drama and documentary productions, its
quality educational family and children's programs, its outreach and community
services and its website, kcet.org. KCET is a donor-supported community
institution. For additional information about KCET productions, web-exclusive
content, programming schedules and community events, please visit kcet.org.
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