August 5, 2009

Filled with the LA Young Leaders Summit buzz, the MPAC office staff are busy polishing up this year's details.

• Ramona Ripston, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Office of Southern California (ACLU-SC)
• Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge
• Larry Mantle, host of the long-running KPCC's news program "AirTalk"
• Ray Gonzales, retired KTLA5 reporter
• Koji Sakai, Japanese American National Museum
• Tahara Goraya, Chief of Staff for Calif. State Senator Carol Liu
• Ronald Wakabayashi, Regional Director for the Department of Justice
• Varun Soni, Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California

The MPAC team is hard at work finalizing the last minute details for the Summit, which will provide 25-30 of Southern California's brightest young Muslim Americans minds with direct access to the city leaders for a quality exchange of ideas.

-- Aziza Hasan (aziza@mpac.org)
Southern California Government Relations Director