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HONOREE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ADVOCATE FOR STUDENTS AND PUBLIC EDUCATION

The California Teachers Association is the state’s larg- est professional employee union, representing more than 325,000 public school teachers, counselors, psychologists, social workers, librarians, nurses and education support professionals, among others. It has become one of the nation’s strongest advocates for students and educators, and is also a leading proponent of civil rights and economic equality. CTA has been a strong supporter of living wage policies, including LAANE’s 2008 LAX hotel living wage law.

CTA has won many landmark victories in its 150-year his- tory, from legislation providing free public schools and free textbooks for all of California’s children to laws banning child labor in the state. In the 1940s, the union was one of a handful of organizations to protest the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

CTA led the critical campaign in 1988 to pass Prop. 98, the law guaranteeing minimum funding for K-12 schools and community colleges. Educators joined with parents in passing legislation to reduce class sizes in our earliest grades and led campaign efforts to pass more than $30 billion to build new schools and repair rundown facilities. CTA also played a pivotal role in defeating Gov. Schwarzeneg- ger’s 2005 ballot initiatives that would have cut school funding, undermined the due-process rights of educators and silenced the voices of public employees.

Last year, CTA led the fight to pass Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30, which stopped $6 billion in education cuts to schools and colleges and will generate $47 billion for public schools, colleges and other essential services over the next seven years. CTA also spearheaded the successful effort to de- feat Prop. 32, which would have stripped unions of the right to participate in politics, while allowing big corporations and billionaires to spend as much as they want in elections.

In addition, CTA has been leading efforts to improve teaching and learning. CTA’s Quality Educa- tion Investment Act is closing achievement gaps and helping at-risk students at our neediest schools succeed. CTA has created a framework for effective teacher evaluation that is based on professional standards and focuses on improving instruction. And CTA’s Institute for Teaching is an incubator for educational innovation, allowing teachers to propose and lead change based on what is working in their classrooms. CTA is committed to providing a quality public education to all students. Quality public schools build stronger local communities and a better California for all of us.

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NCIS TV’S #1 DRAMA

Currently in its 11th season, the #1 series on television and licensed in over 200 territories around the world, NCIS (Naval Criminal Investi- gative Service) is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it’s a show that focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work to- gether in high-stress situations.

NCIS Special Agent (), a former Marine gunnery sergeant whose skills as an investigator are unmatched, leads this troupe of colorful personalities. Gibbs, a man of few words, only needs a look to explain it all. The team includes NCIS Special Agent Tony DiNozzo (Mi- chael Weatherly), an ex-homicide detective whose instincts in the field are unparalleled and whose quick wit and humorous take on life make him a team favorite, and NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee (Sean Murray), an MIT graduate whose brilliance with computers far overshadows his inse- curities in the field. Assisting the team is the youthful and energetic forensic specialist (), a talented scientist whose sharp mind matches her Goth style and eclectic tastes; medical examiner Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard (David McCallum), who knows it all because he’s seen it all – and he’s not afraid to let you know it; and Ducky’s protégé, Assistant Medical Examiner Jimmy Palmer (Brian Dietzen).

The team is also recently joined by NSA Analyst Ellie Bishop (Emily Wickersham), whose mysterious mixture of analytic brilliance, fierce determination and idealism complements the team. Overseeing the operations is NCIS Director Leon Vance (Rocky Carroll), an intelligent, highly trained agent who can always be counted on to shake up the status quo. From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special agents investigate all crimes with Navy or Marine Corps ties.

The series is executive produced by , who also serves as showrunner. Mr. Glasberg began his eclectic writing career nearly 20 years ago in the animation world, accumulating dozens of credits for shows such as Rugrats, Duckman and Real Monsters as well as comic books such as The Simpsons and Animaniacs. He later branched off into hour drama and has been working ever since on some of the most successful TV series of the last decade. His credits include Crossing Jordan, The $treet, The Evidence, Bones, Shark and . He is married to writer Mimi Schmir and has two sons.

In addition to Mr. Glasberg, NCIS is also executive produced by Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Horowitz, Mark Harmon, Frank Cardea, , Steven D. Binder, Scott Williams, and Donald P. Bellisario. NCIS airs Tuesdays at 8PM ET/PT on CBS.

11 HONOREE OUR WALMART NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF CURRENT AND FORMER WALMART WORKERS

OUR Walmart is a nationwide organiza- tion of, by and for Walmart associates who are standing up for change. Through OUR Walmart, associates have been standing together and speaking up for Walmart to publicly commit to changing course, includ- ing better working conditions such as in- creasing flexibility and availability of hours in scheduling, respect for the individual and increasing the pay for every associate to at least $25,000 per year.

In June of 2011, nearly 100 Walmart associates representing thousands of OUR Walmart mem- bers from across the country went to Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, AR, and presented a declaration of respect to Walmart executive management. At the core of the declaration was for Walmart to publically commit to adhering to labor rights and standards. Since that time we have seen the movement for change at Walmart grow.

In Fall 2012, OUR Walmart members made history with the first national strike of Walmart associates. Joined by more than 30,000 supporters from to Washington, DC, at supercenters and warehouses, Walmart associates in over 100 stores stood together to make their voices heard to end Walmart’s illegal retaliation against associates. In total, OUR Walmart members and their supporters took action at more than 1,300 stores. Since then a number of ac- tions have taken place at Walmart stores across the country. This includes the first-ever protract- ed strike against Walmart in Summer 2013 and over 100 acts of civil disobedience in protest of Walmart’s poverty wages and the illegal firing and disciplining of over 80 workers on September 5, 2013.

Black Friday 2012 was just the beginning. In stores across the country, OUR Walmart members are standing together and winning more hours and safer workplaces while getting rid of unfair management actions. OUR Walmart has a track record of winning change in Walmart stores across the country. They have Walmart’s attention and a national network of support.

In Fall 2013, Walmart workers protested with the support of thousands of community support- ers nationwide. And together with the community and allies, OUR Walmart will continue to fight for a better Walmart and a better future for Walmart workers.

12 HONOREE SCOTT PASCUCCI MUSIC EXECUTIVE

Scott Pascucci is Managing Director of the , the acclaimed independent label that is the current home of artists such as Paul McCartney, Rush and Ben Harper. Concord Music Group includes the labels , Telarc and , and boasts a legacy that spans the catalogues of , Stax, Riverside, Pablo, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Mr. Pascucci is also active in independent music films, and has recently been involved with projects such as Cross- roads Guitar Festival 2013, Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’, George Harrison: Living in the Material World and Stevie Nicks’ In Your Dreams.

Previously, Mr. Pascucci was President and COO of Ex- clusive Releasing. From 2001 to 2010 he was President of Rhino Entertainment, growing the company’s progressive philanthropy and employee volunteerism programs while working with artists such as , Led Zeppelin, Cher, the Grateful Dead and Frank Sinatra Enterprises, for which he served as Co-Chairman.

Mr. Pascucci is currently Chair Emeritus for MusiCares, the ’s most respected orga- nization providing financial and medical assistance and services to musicians and their families. He chaired the MusiCares Person of the Year Awards honoring Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Bicycle Music, a leading independent music publisher.

Mr. Pascucci is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Law School.

13 SPECIAL PRESENTER ERIC GARCETTI MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES

Eric Garcetti is the 42nd Mayor of Los Ange- les. His “back to basics” agenda is focused on job creation and solving everyday problems for L.A. residents.

Mayor Garcetti was elected four times by his peers to serve as President of the Los Angeles City Council from 2006 to 2012. From 2001 until taking office as Mayor he served as the Councilmember representing the 13th District, which includes Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake and Atwater Village — all of which were dramatically revitalized under his leadership.

Mayor Garcetti was raised in the San Fernan- do Valley and earned his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the London School of Economics and taught at Occidental College and USC. A fourth generation Angeleno, he is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy reserve and is an avid pianist and photographer.

14 SPECIAL PRESENTER KRISTEN MADSEN SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION & THE MUSICARES FOUNDATION

A 20-year veteran of the music and arts in- dustries, Kristen Madsen is currently serving as Senior Vice President of the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares, two charities founded by . In this roles she has raised and distributed $4 million to music people affected by Katrina, devel- oped the flagship education institute GRAM- MY Camp and increased net assets to both organizations by 270 percent. MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation were named to the “50 Best Nonprofits to Work For” in 2011 by the Nonprofit Times.

Prior to heading up the GRAMMY charities, Ms. Madsen served as Vice President of Member Services for The Recording Acad- emy for eight years. She began her career in the arts management field working as a booking manager for the Repertory Dance Theatre, followed by six years as Community Development and Performing Arts Coordina- tor at the Arts Council. Subsequently, she ran the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, a membership association dedicated to ensuring access to public funds for arts programming in local communities across the state. She also served a fellowship at the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ms. Madsen currently serves on the boards for Grantmakers in the Arts, the Actors Fund and the Library of Congress’ National Recordings Preservation Board.

15 MUSICAL GUEST GRAMMY-WINNING ARTIST

Over the course of a recording career that’s now in its fourth decade, Louisiana-born singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams has navigated terrain as varied as the dust-bowl starkness of her 1978 debut Ramblin’ (recorded on the fly with a mere $250 budget behind her) and the stately elegance of West (which Vanity Fair called “the record of a lifetime”). Between those signposts, Ms. Williams established a reputation as one of rock’s most uncompromising and consistently fascinating writers and performers, earning kudos from artists as diverse as Mary-Chapin Carpenter (who helped win Williams a Grammy with her record- ing of “”) and (who joins her for a duet on the mini-drama “Jailhouse Tears”).

Ms. Williams learned the importance of professional integrity around the same time most kids are learning their ABCs, thanks in large part to her award-winning poet father Miller Williams -- who invested her with a “culturally rich, but economically poor” upbringing where artistic expression was of primary importance. Later, she’d hone her vision playing hardscrabble clubs around her adopted home state of , absorb- ing the influence of sources as varied as and Lightnin’ Hopkins.

She’s never settled for any sort of pigeonholing, entering the ’90s with the slow-burning — a disc that, as much as any release, helped place the Americana movement at the forefront of listen- ers’ minds — and cementing her own spot in the cultural lexicon with 1998’s rough-hewn masterpiece Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.

Ms. Williams stretched her boundaries on 2001’s Essence, an rife with both cerebral interludes and soul-stirring stomps. Little Honey, released in 2008, continued that ongoing forward quest, mixing country, R & B and -rock elements with adventurous aplomb. Her tenth studio album, Blessed, was released in 2011.

In 2002, Ms. Williams was named America’s best songwriter by Time magazine.

16 MUSICAL GUEST JOHN DENSMORE FOUNDING MEMBER, THE DOORS

An original and founding member of the musical group The Doors, John Densmore co-wrote and produced nu- merous gold and platinum and toured the , Europe and Japan. His autobiography, Riders on the Storm, was on the Times bestseller list. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.

Mr. Densmore has written numerous articles for , London’s The Guardian, the Nation, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post and the Utne Read- er. He published his second book, The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison’s Legacy Goes on Trial, in the spring of 2013.

Mr. Densmore has also worked in film, co-producing Road to Return, narrated by Tim Robbins. It won several pres- tigious national awards and was screened for Congress, resulting in the drafting of legislation. He also executive produced Juvies, narrated by Mark Wahlberg, which aired on HBO and won numerous awards, including Internation- al Documentary Awards prize for excellence and the U.S. International Film Fest award for creative excellence.

17 CO-EMCEE ROBINNE LEE ACTRESS

The daughter of Jamaican parents (of African, Chi- nese, British and Arawak Indian descent), Robinne Lee was born and raised in Westchester County, New York. She began her acting career as part of the en- semble cast of the indie romantic comedy Hav Plenty in 1997, which was shown at the Toronto and Sun- dance Film Festivals and distributed by Miramax.

In 2003, Ms. Lee appeared in Universal’s Deliver Us From Eva with LL Cool J and the action comedy Na- tional Security with and Steve Zahn. Roles in Sony’s 13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner and Hitch opposite followed. In 2007, she completed a ten-episode appearance on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and co-produced and starred in the independent film This Is Not a Test, for which she won the Boston Film Festival’s Best Actor Award. She then appeared in Sony’s Seven Pounds (again with Will Smith) and in Dreamworks’ comedy Hotel for Dogs opposite .

In 2013 Ms. Lee starred in the award-winning Miss Dial, for which she also served as one of the producers, and the controversial drama The Undershepherd with Isaiah Washington. She has just wrapped shooting Sex and Violence! Or: A Brief Review of Simple Physics, the long-awaited follow-up from Hav Plenty’s Christopher Scott Cherot, and is currently playing the role of Avery Daniels on BET’s much-anticipated new series Being Mary Jane with .

Ms. Lee received a B.A. in psychology from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She has studied at the Sorbonne in and is an inactive member of the New York Bar.

Ms. Lee regularly speaks on panels regarding the roles of women and actors of color in the industry, and serves on the board of Yale Women of LA. She is active with the City Year Los Angeles organization and Yale in Hollywood. She is an avid runner and an aspiring ballerina, and has recently completed writing her first novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.

18 CO-EMCEE GREG GOOD LOS ANGELES DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

Greg Good is Director of Infrastructure for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, helping him to over- see the work of the five Bureaus of the Depart- ment of Public Works. Prior to joining the Mayor’s office, Mr. Good spent six years at LAANE, most recently serving as Director of the Don’t Waste LA Project, a comprehensive campaign by more than 30 environmental, labor, community and faith-based groups to ensure that the region’s commercial waste and recycling industry is a source of clean air, green jobs and recycling for all. Before that he was LAANE’s Director of Campaign Communications, working on multiple projects including its Retail, Construction Ca- reers and Food Services campaigns.

Prior to joining LAANE Mr. Good was an elemen- tary and high school teacher in the Inglewood and Compton Unified School districts. He also served as Campaign Manager on Steve Zimmer’s first successful run for LAUSD School Board. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Program for Torture Victims (PTV), an organiza- tion that provides comprehensive services to survivors of torture and extreme persecution who come to the U.S. for protection and a second chance.

Earlier in his career Mr. Good worked as an actor, writer and producer, appearing in numerous the- ater productions and films. In 2003 he wrote, produced and performed his one-person show, Shak- ing in My Manhood, at Hollywood’s Metropolitan Theater. He received his undergraduate degree in history from Brown University and his J.D. from UCLA School of Law.

Mr. Good is the proud and adoring husband of Alicia Hancock and father of Ruby Jean Hancock- Good, who recently turned three years old.

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