On Thursday, April 25, the Long Beach Post hosted an event to honor young people from around the city who are doing great things to better their community and beyond. Out of hundreds of nominations from our readers, judges chose 40 winners who run the gamut from educators to artists to business owners to community activists, all of whom represent just a selection of those who are today contributing to the betterment of Long Beach.
Photo by Brandon Muncy/Kern Valley Sun
A Long Beach native, graduate of CSULB and petroleum engineer for the city, Uduak Ntuk is a son of Long Beach through and through. Ntuk is connected with the THUMS Oil Islands partnership, which helped generate over $450 million that was split between the state and the City of Long Beach last year. He remains active in the city that he grew up in, serving on several advisory boards in the southland, speaking at local high schools and recently putting on the first-ever State of Black Long Beach event which coincided with the State of Black Long Beach report published in February.