Jolene Koester

President of California State University

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President of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and leader of the effort to construct the Valley Performing Arts Center, an effort she started ten years ago.

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The Grand Avenue project on Bunker Hill is supposed to put Los Angeles on the cultural map of the world.

The Valley Performing Arts Center Opens: Are LA’s Suburbs Creating their Own Arts Centers?

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