Brence Culp has been serving in the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office since June 2009, initially as lead for the Public Safety Cluster and soon thereafter as Chief Deputy, guiding executive leadership, strategic management, budget development, and fiscal oversight across the nation's largest municipal government agency, which includes approximately 101,000 employees and a budget of over $24 billion.

Prior to her current role, Brence spent over a decade in leadership positions in both the City and County of Los Angeles, including staffing the Chair of the City's Budget and Finance Committee, then for five years covering the County's budget with Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, and also for a brief stint serving as a Division Chief for the City's Chief Legislative Analyst, handling all matters relating to budget, personnel, and public safety. Additionally, she spent three years as the Chief Financial Officer for the former Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles.

Before her transition to local government in 1999, Brence practiced law (corporate tax and real estate), taught in both public and private schools (English and philosophy), ran two small businesses, and founded two education based non-profit. She has lived in Saint Louis, Charlottesville, Fort Wayne, Chicago, Andover, Baltimore, New York, and Los Angeles. Brence received her undergraduate degree in 1989 from the University of Chicago and her law degree from New York University in 1996.

Brence is a wife and mother of two children. At home, she and her family care for chickens, dogs and cats, tend and harvest an expansive garden, maintain an enormous compost pile, play and explore with ceramics and textiles, cook constantly, and - as all parents do, attend to the usual activities of homework, piano lessons, and play dates. After the duties of work and family, Brence finds a little time to practice yoga, make art, and get back to all the books she's always wanted to read and write.

Ms. Currie is General Manager of Pasadena Water and Power (PWP), which serves the city of Pasadena and portions of the county. Under her leadership, PWP has added new electric generation units to its power plant, added a water treatment plant funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to clean up ground water contamination; and embarked on multi-year infrastructure improvement programs to upgrade the city's water and electrical distribution systems. She has also led the development of aggressive goals for renewable energy and water conservation.

During her 30-year career with the city of Los Angeles, Ms. Currie held the positions of Chief Financial Officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power; Assistant City Administrative Officer overseeing development of the city's annual operating and capital budgets and director of the Los Angeles rent control program.

Ms. Currie became chair of the board of directors of the American Public Power Association in June. She also serves on the boards of the Southern California Public Power Authority and the California Municipal Utilities Association. She is a member of the American Water Works Association, the Government Finance Officers Association and the National Forum of Black Public Administrators.

Past professional affiliations include the board of directors of the Electric Power Research Institute, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, and the California Debt Advisory Commission.

Her community affiliations include the Pasadena-Foothill YWCA board; the board development committee of the Girl Scouts Greater Los Angeles; and Pasadena Rotary.

Ms. Currie received a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in business administration degree from UCLA. She also completed the Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Martha C. de la Torre is the CEO of EC Hispanic Media and El Clasificado, which she co-founded in 1988 with her husband and El Clasificado's Chief Operations Officer, Joe Badame. Martha earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University in 1978, and immediately joined Arthur Young & Company. There, Martha became a Certified Public Accountant and audit manager specializing in financial institutions and also assisted businesses in the emerging Hispanic market. Before founding El Clasificado, Martha served two years as Chief Financial Officer of La Opinion, the Spanish-language daily. El Clasificado was launched right before the recession of the 90's and the company struggled to remain afloat for several years. In 1995 the young entrepreneurs changed the distribution model and Joe joined the company full-time to take over operations so Martha could focus on sales, marketing, and new product development. This re-engineering finally put El Clasificado on a trajectory to success.

El Clasificado is now the largest Spanish-language weekly shopper in the U.S. with circulation of 500,000. Elclasificado.com is the leading Spanish-language online classified portal serving U.S. Latinos with a ranking among the top 9,000 U.S. websites according to Quantcast.com. El Clasificado has been recognized by the LA Business Journal as one of LA's Fastest-Growing Private Companies and 50 Largest Latino Companies in Los Angeles, by Hispanic Business Magazine's 500 Largest U. S. Hispanic Owned Companies and 100 Fastest Growing Companies, by ICIC-Bloomberg Business Week Inner City 100 and has been a Greater Los Angeles finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. El Clasificado is active in the community with representation on the boards of the Los Angeles County Education Foundation and the Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic. Martha is a Regent for Loyola Marymount as well as a Board Member of LMU's LAA, Latino Alumni Association, which provides merit and need scholarships to deserving Latino students. Ms. de la Torre is also the Chair of ICMA, the International Classified Media Association headquartered in Amsterdam, representing over 60 classified media organizations around the world.

Hope Edelman is the author of six nonfiction books, including the bestsellers Motherless Daughters, Motherless Mothers, and The Possibility of Everything, which was recently optioned for film. Her books have been published in 17 countries and 11 languages and have almost a million copies in print. Her most recent book, the bestselling Along the Way, is a collaboration with the actors and filmmakers Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez about their 50-year father-son relationship.

An expert in the field of early mother loss and mother-daughter relationships, Hope speaks at venues and conferences all over the world and has appeared frequently on television, including Today, Good Morning America, CNN, KTLA, CBC, and Good Morning Australia. In November she will deliver a keynote speech at the opening of the first bereavement center in Dubai, UAE. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post, Glamour, Child, Self, Real Simple, and Writer's Digest and she is sought after as a personal essayist whose work has appeared in many anthologies.

The recipient of a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master's degree in nonfiction writing from the University of Iowa, Hope is a proud member of Northwestern's Council of 100, a group of 100 notable women alumni that mentors female students and recent graduates. She was recently inducted into the Medill School of Journalism's Hall of Achievement, an honor reserved for fewer than 1 percent of the school's graduates. Equally committed to helping motherless families and emerging young writers, she has been a board member of PEN USA, Motherless Daughters Inc., and Motherless Daughters of Orange County, as well as an Advisory Board member at Mommy's Light.

Hope is an associate faculty member in the MFA program at Antioch University-LA, teaches in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival every July, participates in writing festivals and workshops both in the U.S. and abroad, and teaches through her private writing workshop company, Words Etcetera. This past May she was a featured author at the River Teeth Nonfiction Conference and she is a regular panelist at the Associated Writing Programs annual conference. Hope lives in Topanga Canyon, California, with her husband and their two daughters.

Gail Farber was appointed Director of the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works on December 1, 2008. In this capacity, she also serves as the County Road Commissioner, County Engineer, and Chief Engineer of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District.

After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from San Diego State University in 1985, Farber spent 19 years with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) serving in a variety of senior positions, including Office Chief of Design, Office Chief of Engineering Services, Project Manager and Quality Program Manager for District 12, and Construction Resident Engineer for District 11.

Prior to her appointment with County Public Works, she served as the Director of Public Works/City Engineer for the cities of Pico Rivera and Orange.

The Public Works Department has 4,000 employees and a budget of more than $2 billion. The Department designs, constructs, installs, operates and repairs roads, highways, bridges, airports, flood control and water conservation facilities, sanitary sewers, water distribution systems, and regulatory and ministerial programs for the County, the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, and other special districts and contract cities.

It also provides project management services for County capital and earthquake recovery projects and provides a leadership role in the Countywide transportation system, traffic mitigation efforts, and solid and hazardous waste management plans.

National television/radio host and correspondent Stacey Gualandi has come a long way since her first big scoop right out of Miami University's journalism program: picking up horse manure as a P.A. on the set of the film Eight Men Out. Not quite the journalistic scoop she was looking for, but it did lead to another "inside" job as Molly Ringwald's stand-in on the film Fresh Horses. That's when she decided to move to Hollywood to be a television reporter

But before realizing her dream, Stacey would have to take a few detours on her path to reporter-hood. She first worked with Nick Clooney, father of George, as an intern during college at WKRC in Cincinnati. So it was with great joy that she had the opportunity to work with him as an assistant on the early court show On Trial. And to help supplement her income during these lean years, Stacey did what every newbie to Hollywood does: try her hand at game shows. Not many people can still win $6000 on Match Game after answering "prosthesis" to the question "Jack was so tough, he ran a marathon after getting a ______".

Stacey is now the host of "The Women's Eye Radio Show" on 1480KPHX, and contributor to the website www.thewomenseye.com. Both provide an avenue for today's newsmakers, authors, journalists, and entrepreneurs to discuss how they are making a difference in "the world as we see it"! Guests like Lee Woodruff, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Gayle Lemmon, Carie Lemack and Christy Turlington Burns, just to name a few.

Stacey can still be seen as the host of HALLMARK CHANNEL'S "ON LOCATION". She interviewed the casts of the channel's original movies in production, and produced the behind-the-scenes specials for this web-based series.

She developed her gutsy style of reporting at AMERICAN JOURNAL and for eight years at INSIDE EDITION. Stacey covered the world of entertainment, particularly celebrities at work, at play and in trouble. From the Super Bowl, junkets, movie sets, premieres and court cases (including Blake, Jackson and Simpson), to award shows like the Oscars, Grammys, SAG's, Golden Globes and the Emmy's, Stacey has rarely faced an entertainment story she couldn't cover effectively. Her reputation for putting an interviewee at ease while asking the tough questions has helped to secure many difficult interviews. She obtained the first interview with Mary Kay Letourneau's young lover and a rare interview with Kit Culkin, Macauley's dad, about the case against Michael Jackson, just to name a few.

There was also very little she wouldn't do for a story. Stacey stayed awake for 80 hours to test the effects of sleep deprivation; she painted the Hollywood sign; she changed light bulbs on the Oakland Bridge; she joined Cirque du Soleil; she went undercover as a polio survivor to expose a deceitful televangelist; she flew a plane after only 15 minutes of instruction; she attempted sheep riding; she joined an all-female chain gang, and she went behind-the-scenes at the Bunnyranch brothel long before Diane Sawyer.

She hosted a ground-breaking multi-media project called UNDERSTANDING CANCER. Both the website and pilot profiled numerous cancer survivors and advocates including Arnold Palmer, Mr. T, Laura Ingraham, and Hilary Swank, and served as a cancer-support network for survivors, caregivers, family, friends and those recently diagnosed.

As the host of "ON TOUR" at Fox5/KVVU, Stacey covered the bands and personalities who perform in Las Vegas. Each week, she reported on and interviewed singers appearing in Sin City like Duran Duran, Bryan Adams, Silverchair, and Trace Adkins. Stacey has also covered Hollywood for EXTRA, "The Adam Corolla Show", and as a correspondent for TV Guide Network. There, she hit the trifecta: Anna Nicole Smith's premature death, Paris Hilton's stint in jail, and Lindsay Lohan's DUI ordeal.

Stacey recently started the Hollywood Chapter of Dining for Women, a national "giving circle" that helps raise money for designated charities every month. She helped raise thousands for the YAS Spin-a-Thon for Think Cure!; she served as host for the Bogart Pediatric Cancer Research Program's "Bogart Backstage", the Youth Support Institute's "Golden Youth Awards" at the Friars Club, and the Jeremy McGrath Supercross Invitational. Stacey has also participated in the Malibu Triathlon benefitting Children's Hospital LA, the Merv Griffin/Beverly Hills Country Club Tennis Classic, the Challenged Athletes Triathlon and the Susan G. Komen Annual Fashion Show for the Cure. She has also co-hosted the Miss Burbank pageant.

Stacey earned a BS degree in Broadcast Journalism from Miami University. While attending college, she worked as an on-air radio broadcaster for the campus radio station WMUB and also spent a semester studying in Luxembourg. Stacey is also a certified yoga and spin instructor for YAS Fitness Centers in Los Angeles.

She lives in Los Angeles and Las Vegas with her husband Marty, lovebird Cleo and mutts Wally and Bobo.

Since launching the Pasadena Magazine in September 2007, Rebecca Haussling has overseen its growth to a multi-million dollar company and in the process has been a tireless advocate for Pasadena businesses and local charitable causes. In a challenging economic environment, Rebecca, under the leadership of Pasadena Magazine, has brought in over $6 million dollars in revenue and in the process, promoting Pasadena and its surrounding communities businesses and charitable causes. Rebecca is a committed supporter of a number of local charities, donating over a quarter million dollars in in-kind exposure and advertising space in the Pasadena Magazine to such causes as the YWCA, American Heart Association, AIDS Service Center, Bienvenidos, Boys and Girls Club Pasadena, City of Hope, Childrens Hospital LA, Five Acres, Planned Parenthood, Rosemary Children's Services, Kidspace and Pasadena Foothill Family Services, to name a few. Prior to Pasadena Magazine, Rebecca launched two other local publications and has worked for fifteen years in the publishing industry. Rebecca was raised in western New York and southern Connecticut and has a degree in English Literature from the State University of Buffalo. She is currently enrolled in the Masters in Organizational Leadership at Woodbury College, lives with her husband Nick in Altadena, CA and had her first child, a son, on April 17th, 2012.

Alfred McIntosh is a nationally acclaimed resource on financial planning. He has been interviewed and quoted in newspapers, magazines and on newswires, including the Dow Jones Newswire, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, Elle Magazine, CNNMoney.com, Black Enterprise, BusinessWeek.com, and The Los Angeles Times. He is a graduate of the UCLA Personal Financial Planning Program (PFP), and The Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards licenses Alfred McIntosh to use the professional designations Certified Financial Planner™ and CFP®. www.mcintoshcapital.com

As a high school senior at John Muir, Inger Miller was crowned Princess to the 1990 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Royal Court. She went on to earn a full athletic scholarship to attend the University of Southern California and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biological sciences.

She is the daughter of the late world record holder, in the 4x110y relay at USC, Jamaican Olympic Silver and Bronze medalist in the 100 meters, and USC dentist, Lennox Miller. Inger began her career as a professional track and field athlete in 1993. Following her father's footsteps, Inger went on to win Olympic gold in the 4x100 meter relay at the 1996 Olympics (Atlanta), becoming the first father-daughter Olympic medalists. She enjoyed 13 illustrious years as a professional athlete; earning four World Championship gold medals.

Inger and her business partner Jill Hawkins own and operate Miller Hawkins Productions, LLC (MHPevents) a full service event planning company. Founded in 2002, MHPevents was built on the premise that all clients should be guests at their own event. MHPevents specializes in event planning and management. The clientele range from corporate meeting planning, trade shows and conferences, to high end weddings and galas. The motto is "Don't Worry, We Will". Ten years after conception, the Miller Hawkins team is proud to have clients among the likes of The Police Activities League, The Community Health Alliance of Pasadena, The Innocence Mission, Insomniac Games and an array of celebrities. MHPevents has been honored by Assemblymember Anthony Portantino as California's small business of the year and Top 40 under 40 by Pasadena Magazine, as well as nominations in several categories at Catersource and Event Solutions.

Presently, Inger is the President of the Altadena Chamber of Commerce and sits on the Council for the University of Southern California Alumni Association lifestyle group the Second Decade Society.

Angella Nazarian earned her graduate degree (Summa Cum Laude) in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from California State University, Long Beach. Over the next 11 years, Ms. Nazarian was a professor of Psychology and faculty member at Mount Saint Mary's College, California State University, Long Beach, and Los Angeles Valley College. She has been conducting workshops and seminars on topics related to personal development and growth for women and has been a keynote speaker at various national events and conferences. For a list of topics and seminars, please visit http://www.angellanazarian.com/seminars.html.

Ms. Nazarian is committed to fostering growth in children and women. Education and diversity are of particular interest to her. She served on the Board of Directors for Les Enfants Preschool in Santa Monica, and University Laboratory School - Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. She was the chairperson of the education committee of the Board of Trustees at Brentwood School and is currently a trustee at the school. She also serves on the Parent Advisory Board at Stanford University. In 1999, Ms. Nazarian co-founded Looking Beyond, a charitable organization that promotes awareness and creates advancement and enrichment for children with disabilities by supporting different programs and services. In the past ten years, this organization has dispersed over $2M to local organizations, schools, and hospitals. Other projects and charitable organizations in which Ms Nazarian is involved include: Jewish Federation, Women's International Zionist Organization, The Aviva House (a residence and school for homeless teenage girls), Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles Children's Hospital, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, and Farhang Foundation.

Ms. Nazarian is a member of the American Iranian Writers' Association, the Los Angeles Writers Collective, and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, More.com, and Intent.com. She has had her award-winning poetry published in New Millennium Writings, and several of her works have been published in MO+TH publication. Her first book, Life as a Visitor, was a best-seller for Assouline publishers. Her second book, Pioneers of the Possible: 20 Visionary Women of the World, is scheduled to launch in February of 2012. Angella has a passion for travel, photography and flamenco dance. She lives with her husband in Los Angeles is the mother of two.

Robin Sax is principal of the Law Offices of Robin Sax, a boutique law practice founded by the renowned victim's advocate, former prosecutor, and TV legal analyst. Sax has combined her in-court, and on-air skills, to create unprecedented legal and media coverage in a one-stop shop for legal services. The firm specializes in victim's advocacy, criminal defense, family law, child custody matters, constitutional law, and civil litigation.

a former da

Sax is a former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney who specialized in prosecuting sex crimes against children. For over fifteen years, Robin prosecuted some of the most despicable defendants who committed the most heinous crimes, prosecuting hundreds of felony crimes including homicides, stalking, domestic violence, child sexual assault, and gang crimes.

a legal commentator

Robin is a regular contributor on legal matters to major network news organizations, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News. She is also a regular guest commentator for several other national television shows, including ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, INSIDE EDITION, DR. DREW, Nancy Grace, Dr. Phil, Tyra Banks, Issues with Jane Velez Mitchell, Fox's Geraldo at Large, Hollywood 411, E! THE INSIDER, and many others. She has commentated on high profile cases including Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Michael Jackson, Casey Anthony, Jaycee Duggard, Amber Dubois, Chelsea King, Roman Polanski, Natalee Holloway, Drew Peterson, OJ Simpson and many others.

an author

Robin's articles can be found on The Huffington Post, MomLogic, Psychology Today, Crimesider/CBS News, and also Women in Crime Ink. Robin has her own weekly SaxFacts TV, Newsletter and blog - found on www.robinsax.com.

She has written six books that draw upon her vast experience as sex-crimes prosecutor, legal commentator, child advocate and parenting expert.

Published titles include:

• Predators and Child Molesters: A Sex Crimes D.A. Answers 100 of the The Most Asked Questions (April 2009)
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Criminal Justice System (April 2009)
• It Happens Every Day: Inside the Life of a Sex Crimes D.A. (Fall 2009)
• Women's Legal Lives: Reaching the Bar (Book 1 in series-Spring 2009)

educator and speaker

In addition to advising numerous legal foundations, Robin regularly shares her valuable insight and expertise with members of the FBI, Los Angeles Police Department, Sheriff's Department, and the California District Attorney's Association. Robin has served as adjunct professor of Women and Crime at Cal State Los Angeles and lecturer on criminal law and the justice system in UCLA's Paralegal Training Program.

Robin is on advisory boards for FirstStar.org, The Innocent Justice Foundation, the Awareness Center (organizations dedicated to addressing sexual violence and abuse), and the NEST Foundation (building awareness for human trafficking). She is an expert panelist for Kiwi Commons (preventing online abuse and "sexting" awareness). She has also been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who, and is a member in good standing National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

More information: www.robinsax.com

Christine Schwab is known as one of the most successful television personalities and authors in fashion, beauty and lifestyle. She has been a recurring guest on the most popular network television shows including; Oprah!, NBC Nightly News, CBS-The Early Show, The Today Show, Live with Regis and Kelly, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider, Rachael Ray, Inside Edition, CNBC News, Fox Network News, E! Entertainment and Weekend Today. Schwab started her career as a journalist on KABC-TV Eyewitness News in Los Angeles.

Her book, "THE GROWN-UP GIR'S GUIDE TO STYLE" was published in September, 2006 by Harper Collins. Christine's first book, "QUICKSTYLE" was published under her maiden name, Christine Kunzelman by Random House in September of 1994. Christine's third book, "TAKE ME HOME FROM THE OSCARS", a memoir was published by Skyhorse May 1, 2011.

As the contributing style editor to Redbook magazine Christine wrote a highly rated monthly column that also appeared in the Australian magazine She. Schwab has also been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Ladies Home Journal, Women"s World, The Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post and The Washington Post Book Magazine/Sunday.

Schwab has also been a spokesperson for many of the country"s leading fashion and beauty companies. Estee Lauder, Revlon, Cotton Inc., Lenscrafters, Patek Phillipe and The Platinum Guilde are just a few of the companies Christine has worked with. Some of her private style consultation clients have included: ABC, Disney, Universal Studios, and WABC-TV.

Christine is a member of Aftra, Fashion Group, Writer's Market, and Pen USA and an ambassador for the National Arthritis Foundation. More information and television clips are available on her website: www.christineschwab.com