On Saturday, September 22, more than 300 people gathered at The Grand here in Long Beach as the Long Beach Post, in a partnership with Choura Events, presented its inaugural 30 Women to Watch event, a night designed to honor the many female citizens of this city who are altering the landscape with their own definitions of what it means to be a woman.
In addition to featuring the winners in a special pull-out section in the most recent print edition of the Post, we will be running profiles and photos of each woman, one per day, for the next 30 days.
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Thyda Duong has single-handedly transformed the Interval House, a nonprofit dedicate to harboring and providing assistance to victims of domestic violence. Born in a refugee camp where her parents fled the Khmer Rouge regime, she has since completed undergraduate work at UCLA and graduate work at USC while also working on the side as a journalist for the Long Beach Business Journal.