Los Angeles County is heading into the next stage of the COVID-19 pandemic as indoor mask orders are lifted.
Leading the county is the Board of Supervisor and its chair, Supervisor Holly Mitchell, a third-generation Angeleno who served in both the State Senate and Assembly.
In honor of Women's History Month, host Tanya McRae sits down with Mitchell for a candid conversation about her first year as supervisor and the vision she has for LA County ahead.
"We've had an amazing whirlwind of a year, everything from creating an anti-poverty initiative, through which we are taking steps to close the digital divide in LA County, and launched the largest basic income pilot program in the nation," said Mitchell.
The supervisor also shares how her parents met while working for the county in the 1960s and how they influenced her to go into public service. Mitchell discusses how the Second District Racial Justice Learning Exchange is going to allow residents and community leaders in her district to have a safe space to discuss racism, implicit bias and other issues.
"We have to talk about the cross-cutting issues that we all live and experience, and are either perpetrators of or recipients of every day," she said.
Mitchell shares about all the trailblazing women she is honoring for Women's History Month, including Angela Davis, Stacey Abrams and Pauli Murray.
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