{"id":42977,"date":"2022-12-02T20:18:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/?p=42977"},"modified":"2022-12-02T20:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T20:51:54","slug":"activist-of-the-year-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/activist-of-the-year-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"JWW’s Serena Oberstein named Activist of the Year by Asm. Jesse Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Jewish World Watch (JWW) Executive Director Serena Oberstein received the second annual Activist of the Year award from California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel in Woodland Hills on December 1. The Activist of the Year Award is an honor presented to a community member in the San Fernando Valley who creates an impact locally and beyond.<\/p>

\u201c[Jewish World Watch] is an organization that works across cultures, across geographic boundaries to protect the most vulnerable people on the planet,\u201d Rep. Gabriel said during his remarks, \u201cwe are incredibly grateful for the remarkable human rights advocacy work that [Serena] has done across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Rep. Grabriel’s Valley Community Leadership Awards, held at The Local Peasant in Woodland Hills, recognized 13 change-makers, including:<\/span><\/p>

Serena Oberstein |<\/strong> Activist of the Year<\/p>

Cafe Aficionado |<\/strong> Small Business of the Year<\/p>

Dina Kimmel |<\/strong> Woman of the Year<\/p>

Organization for Social Media Safety |<\/strong> Nonprofit of the Year<\/p>

Dr. Wendy Wooten |<\/strong> Educator of the Year<\/p>

Diana Weynand |<\/strong> Environmentalist of the Year<\/p>

Mike Young |<\/strong> Environmentalist of the Year\u00a0<\/p>

El Proyecto del Barrio |<\/strong> Community Heroes of the Year<\/p>

Planned Parenthood |<\/strong> Community Heroes of the Year<\/p>

Monique & Dale Mascari |<\/strong> Businesspeople of the Year<\/p>

Pierre Arreola |<\/strong> Community Volunteer of the Year<\/p>

Adnan Hamid |<\/strong> Community Volunteer of the Year<\/p>

MTO Shahmaghsoudi |<\/strong> Community Volunteers of the Year<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jewish World Watch (JWW) Executive Director Serena Oberstein received the second annual Activist of the Year award from California State Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel in Woodland Hills on December 1. The Activist of the Year Award is an honor presented to a community member in the San Fernando Valley who creates an impact locally and beyond.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,188],"tags":[135,464,159,140,143,478],"class_list":["post-42977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news-features","tag-armenia","tag-armenian-genocide","tag-forced-labor","tag-genocide","tag-jewish","tag-uyghur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42977"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42998,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42977\/revisions\/42998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}