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Armando is responsible for Budget, Accounting, Payroll, Personnel, Facilities, IT, Marketing, and other administrative elements of outreach activities.

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I am happy to help and look forward to working with you.
Armando is an avid book, audiobook, comic, TV, and movie fan. He enjoys the occasional round of golf with his son, and shopping with his wife and daughter.

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Tom is responsible for supporting Neighborhood Council Boards with capacity building, training, and organizing skills that Empower LA and engage the community.

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Isn’t CA great? You bet it is!
“If food is the music of love, then eat on”

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Vanessa leads the Department’s civic leadership programming.

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Vanessa previously served on the Pacoima Neighborhood Council and  a neighborhood empowerment advocate. She loves coffee and DIY projects.

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Man-Qin is the lead accountant for the department, responsible for all accounting operations, compliance and reporting requirements, as well as payment processing, and budget monitoring activities.

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Gibson is responsible for supporting Neighborhood Council Boards with capacity building, training, and organizing skills that Empower LA and engage the community.

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Gibson is bilingual speaker; he speaks Swahili and English. He is excited to assist by serving the community.

Skills:

• Public Speaking
• Car Enthusiast’ percent
• FIFA (any year)

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John is responsible for supporting Neighborhood Council Boards with capacity building, training, and organizing skills that Empower LA and engage the community.

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Lorenzo is responsible for supporting Neighborhood Council Boards with capacity building, training, and organizing skills that Empower LA and engage the community.

Interesting Fact/Personal Message:

Lorenzo Briceno joined the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment with 10 years of Legislative experience with the Los Angeles City Council.  He previously worked as Assistant Chief of Staff to Councilmember Bernard C. Parks.  His Management experience leading a political office’s legislative team brings great value to our department. He holds a strong background and understanding of local government process and understands the council and committee process. He brings his insights into the Neighborhood Empowerment Department and has a desire for increasing civic engagement, while building strategic partnerships with stakeholders, and advocacy groups to further empower citizens of Los Angeles.

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Mario is responsible for supporting Neighborhood Council Boards with capacity building, training, and organizing skills that Empower LA and engage the community.

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Octaviano is responsible for supporting Neighborhood Council Boards with capacity building, training, and organizing skills that Empower LA and engage the community.

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Jose is responsible for supporting Neighborhood Council Boards with capacity building, training, and organizing skills that Empower LA and engage the community.

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Kyle assists the department admin team by processing various administrative requests, assist with weekly newsletter creating, processing , and working on other related administrative projects.

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Interesting Fact:

Ann-Marie Holman is a former board member and Land Use Committee Chair for the Echo Park Neighborhood Council. Since 2015 she has headed the outreach team for the annual Congress of Neighborhoods, and teaches public relations and social media workshops there. She has a previous background in the private sector, as a corporate brand manager and in-house publicist. She is also an award winning professional dancer, whose performance credits include events like the Night On Broadway festival in Downtown LA. Ann-Marie got her start in government growing up in Utah, as a member of Senator Orrin Hatch’s Youth Advisory Committee.

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