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Nov 17, 2026 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Nov 24, 2026
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Dec 01, 2026 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
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Dec 08, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
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Jan 05, 2027 12:00 PM
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Jan 12, 2027 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Pattie Braga - Executive Director of Leadership Ventura County Pattie Braga began her tenure at formerly named VCLA seven years ago, in August of 2019. In that time, she has increased VCLA’s brand awareness and community impact throughout the Ventura County community. Pattie has implemented three new programs under the direction of her board, including bi-monthly Leader Lunches, where alumni can connect and continue to learn about issues impacting the Ventura County community, a monthly alumni newsletter, which highlights alumni board and civic involvement, and rolled out an Alumni & Friends program, further connecting VCLA’s 745-alumni member network. Pattie is a deeply engaged Ventura County resident. She is a connector within the community, which is perfectly suited for her role at VCLA. Pattie has served on the boards for the Ventura Family YMCA, Ventura Chamber of Commerce, the Palmer Drug Abuse Program, and Ventura County Leadership Academy. She was a “Big” with the Big Brothers Big Sisters program for many years until 2019, when her “Little” moved to attend Sacramento State University. She was named the 2019 Alumni of the Year by VCLA and received the Ventura Poinsettia Award as the Volunteer of the Year in 2012. VCLA has now been re-branded as “Leadership Ventura County” |
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Jan 19, 2027 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Jan 26, 2027 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Susana Lopez-Garcia
Executive Director
Community Action of Ventura County
BIO
Susy started with CAVC in 2014 as a Cal-Fresh outreach staff member. She then became the Medi-Cal outreach team manager while completing her Master of Public Policy & Administration from California Lutheran University at the same time. She then became CAVC’s Manager of Community Services, in which she oversaw agency-wide reporting and compliance with the Community Service Block Grant. She also led Community Development workshops, marketing, and fund development efforts for CAVC. Susy is a Ventura County native, having been born and raised in Oxnard to immigrant parents from Oaxaca, Mexico. She attended Oxnard High School and then earned a BA in Liberal Studies and Spanish from California State University, Northridge. After graduating, Susy worked for Southern California nonprofits before joining CAVC. Susy lives in Oxnard with her husband, son, and four dogs. In her free time, she enjoys reading, attending local events, and finding new restaurants to try. |
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Feb 02, 2027 Ends: 1:15 PM
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Feb 09, 2027
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Feb 16, 2027 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Feb 23, 2027 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
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Mar 09, 2027 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
About the Speaker:
Reel Guppy Outdoors founder, Kevin Brannon saw a need for a free youth fishing program in his local community.Many kids would tell him they wished they had someone to take them fishing too, whenever he and his kids would pile into the car, fishing rods and tackle in tow.He himself had grown up with uncertainty, single parent household, low income, after his father passed away. Then it was foster homes and shelters, a modern-day Dickensian childhood.
With little other opportunity, yet living just a block from Port Hueneme Pier, he would spend hours there, fishing. Required to be ever resourceful, he would recover used fishing line and hooks. With a tin can as his fishing pole, and any leftover bait he could scrounge from the pier's cleaning tables, he was a modernday Huck Fin. By age 9, he had worked his way aboard the local party-boats. As a "pin-head," he helped paying passengers with their fishing, untangling lines, sacking fish and such. Out on the boats was a haven of safety and solitude, a place of security and certainty in his otherwise unstable childhood. This time imprinted a passion for fishing and the sea, an ethic valuing helping others. He carries these values to this day, and they form the heart and soul of the Reel Guppy Outdoors program. Now, some 25 years later, Brannon produces a TV show he started while attending Oxnard College. Reel Anglers Fishing Show California currently televised in California produces the Reel Guppy Outdoor. Brannon saw it as his purpose, sharing his connection with the ocean and outdoors with others, to foster in others the sense of belonging and purpose he found in fishing. With the promise of fun and adventure as bait, he fosters a sense of value in learning, self motivation, leadership and success in the young people he takes fishing. As a survivor of uncertain times, he wants to pass on the survival strategies that saved him. |
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Mar 16, 2027 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Mar 23, 2027 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
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