The Weekly Newspaper of Inglewood
Herald Publications - El Segundo, Hawthorne, Lawndale & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 69, No. 33 - August 13, 2020
The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and Helping
Hands Community Bring Relief to Inglewood Homes
From loss of household income and loss of positive social environment for their kids, families shared that their needs are vast and vary across neighborhoods. The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and Helping Hands Community continue to work together and provide
donations to support local COVID19 relief efforts in vulnerable populations during this time of crisis. With 22,000 meals consisting of fruits, veggies, and dairy boxes delivered directly to homes in Inglewood, the main focus is to support to families and help the youth stay
active and healthy. Photo courtesy City of Inglewood.
Linda Johnson from front page
go back to filling her days at the Chamber
of Commerce doing whatever tasks are necessary.
She was helping promote members
through social media, planning community
events, like the state-of-the city luncheon and
the Main Street car show, fine-tuning myriad
community mixers, as well as taking care
of the nuts-and-bolts activities like paying
invoices, billing COC members, and showing
her prowess wielding a vacuum when the need
arises at the Chamber’s Main Street office.
She works in tandem with Hansen, in what
Johnson said is “a great partnership, we just
love working together.”
Prior to beginning her stint with the Chamber,
Johnson spent nearly three decades working for
El Segundo’s Computer Sciences Corporation
(CSC), where she rose to the post of senior
manager, corporate communications. She was
instrumental in developing communication
content, working in consort with executive
teams to manage all aspects of design and
event production. She called her time with
CSC “an amazing experience. I am forever
grateful for my career with them.” She said
it was exciting being part of a group that was
pioneering technology, and that she “learned
something new every six months.”
After CSC relocated to Virginia in 2011,
Johnson worked as a freelancer for about nine
months. She then went to work in Westchester
for Otis College of Art and Design, serving
as the executive assistant to the president for
three years. During her tenure at Otis College,
Johnson managed all administrative duties for
the office of the president, interfacing with
major donors, Board members, community
and arts leaders and college leadership. Once
Otis selected a new president, Johnson found
herself looking for another challenge, and
quickly found work at the COC. Timing, it is
said, is everything.
When not working or volunteering, Johnson
said she likes to paint, draw, exercise, fancying
ballet, and fly-fishing, but has not been
able to do much fishing in the past few years
because of the effects of the long-term drought
in California.
Despite being cooped-up, waiting out this
pandemic, Johnson puts a hopeful spin on our
current situation, noting that there are valuable
“lessons learned” from telecommuting work
opportunities and that “you have to try to look
at the positive.”
Not overly excited about sharing her story
with this reporter, Johnson quipped that “I am
very reserved about this, can you tell? I do not
like to have the focus on me because I am not
doing anything special.” Many El Segundo
community members would beg to differ!
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