Tag: Youth

  • City Heights Youth to Contribute Art to World Refugee Day Event

    Join Speak City Heights partner The AjA Project for World Refugee Day June 19 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. The event will celebrate San Diego’s diversity with Pulitzer Prize winner Don Bartletti and local photographers Sam Hodgson and Roberto “Bear” Guerra. AjA will presentent a multimedia…

  • From Gang Member To College Student With Positive Peer Influence

    By Padma Nagappan Published April 20, 2011 on Photo Credit: Padma Nagappan   A free college readiness program in City Heights is helping inner-city high school students become the first in their families to go to college. The program has enabled many teenagers to overcome troubled backgrounds, gang involvement and drug habits and turn their…