She earned her doctorate in wine science from the University of Adelaide in Australia and moved to the U.S. She is co-founder and president of PreetiRang Sanctuary in Solano County and is active in animal advocacy.Īnita Oberholster of Yolo County was born in South Africa. She went on to earn two additional master’s degrees in Business Administration and information management from Washington University in St. to study for her master’s degree in electrical engineering at Yale University. Singh was born in India but moved to the U.S.
In 2022, he joined Lake County Tribal Health to help implement heath education programs.Īlso honored on Sunday were Madhulika Singh of Solano County. In 2021, he founded Equilingual, an agency that supports communication between organizations and the Spanish-speaking community. Rangel worked to develop the AmeriCorps program in Lake County and also provide support and translation services during a number of wildfires between 20. Arnold Schwarzenegger to work in the development of AmeriCorps in California. Rangel was working in San Joaquin County in migrant educational services when he was tapped by then-Gov. Gilbert Rangel, like Herrera, was born in Mexico and immigrated to the U.S. Together with his wife, Lorena, Herrera has seen Mi Sueño wines served at the White House during the administrations of Presidents George W. In 1997, Herrera launched what he called a “side project,” which became Mi Sueño Winery. Helena, winemaker at Vine Cliff Winery in Napa, and director of winemaking at Paul Hobbs Consulting in Sebastopol. Herrera has held the posts of assistant winemaker at Chateau Potelle in St. His career in wine began as a harvest laborer at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in Napa, but after 10 years at various stops he became cellar master for winemaker Warren Winiarski. Helena in 1972, where he began working as a night dishwasher at Auberge du Soleil during high school. Herrera, who was born in Mexico and first moved to St.
Rolando Herrera, at whose winery the event was held, was honored for his decades of work in winemaking in the Napa Valley. I work hard and finally I come to this point with everyone and witness this American dream.” “I think I started as a teenager, when I listened to the radio ‘Voice of America’ and I know there was a different world on this planet. It is therefore fitting and proper that we honor him here today with the American Dream Award.” “His readiness to help others is evident in his impactful work in the district and on Capitol Hill.
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in 1993, when he was 34, to study business administration at Dominican University in San Rafael.ĭing started working as a tax practitioner, an enrolled agent with the Internal Revenue Service, in 2007 but later opened Unicom Tax Services and helped establish a free tax clinic at La Luz Center in Sonoma.ĭing has been an advocate for taxpayers, according to Thompson, traveling regularly to Capitol Hill to speak on amending the Tax Cut and Jobs Act, as well as advocating for increased funding for the IRS.ĭing, first elected to the Sonoma City Council in 2020, is the first Asian American to be elected mayor of Sonoma.ĭing’s “advocacy, and service as an elected official have greatly enriched the Sonoma community,” Thompson’s statement read. Sonoma City Council member Jack Ding, who was elected mayor by his fellow council members in 2021 and served until December 2022 when council elected a new mayor, was born in China. The award and luncheon celebration recognized immigrants who have excelled professionally, in entrepreneurship and innovation. An advocate and scientist working in the field of viticulture and enology.Īll immigrants, all acclaimed in their fields of study and advocacy and business.Īnd all were honored Sunday as winners of the American Dream Award for California’s Fourth District in a ceremony at Mi Sueño Winery in Napa hosted by U.S. Founder of PreetiRang Sanctuary and an animal rights advocate. Founder of Equilingual and leader of the AmeriCorps program in Lake County.
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