{"id":5726,"date":"2022-11-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=5726"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T01:52:29","slug":"tech-senior-co-hosts-local-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2022\/11\/04\/tech-senior-co-hosts-local-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Senior Co-Hosts Local TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Karen Krynen
Director of Communications – Don Bosco Technical Institute<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interest and involvement in his community has led to a unique opportunity for Tech senior Christian Figueroa (CSEE \u201823). The senio class co-president and honor student is cohosting a bi-weekly program on KGEM-TV, the City of Monrovia\u2019s community cable station that broadcasts City Council meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A frequent in-person attendee at the meetings, Christian was approached by Apple Music host and producer Chris Loos, a Monrovia resident who volunteers his expertise to the \u201cMonrovia City Council Recap\u201d program that offers informative, fact-based reporting of the council meetings. Chris asked Christian to provide a young person\u2019s perspective of proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI knew from our conversation he was special,\u201d Chris said. \u201cThen, seeing how well prepared he was, while maintaining his poise, and professionalism as we recorded the show at KGEM-TV showed me that I was sitting with an absolute superstar! Christian\u2019s genuine passion for government & legislation makes him a perfect fit to be a lead host of our City Council recap team here in Monrovia. Excited to see what the future holds for this incredible talent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m incredibly humbled by the opportunity,\u201d said Christian. \u201cThe goal of my role on the broadcast is to get more students to watch and become more aware of community issues. If I can inspire, in some way, other students to actively engage, I\u2019ll be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a young age, Christian was inspired to be active in his community and to give back by his grandmother who has devoted her entire life to activism and public service, being an integral voice on various national and local political campaigns. In addition to his role as class co-president, Christian is currently an officer in the school\u2019s National Honor Society, Wellness Club, and Key Club. He is particularly interested in Monrovia\u2019s prioritizing of infrastructure maintenance, climate initiatives, and support services in the school district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCongresswoman Shirley Chisholm once said, \u2018Service is the rent we pay for living on this earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about how you can make people\u2019s lives better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe it\u2019s essential for young people to get involved at an early age because it is never too early to serve your community. A movement begins with one person, regardless of their age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlthough people my age can\u2019t vote yet, we can still participate in our democratic system and make our voices heard in innovative ways like this broadcast series.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian plans to begin his undergraduate studies in economics next fall. He hopes to hold political office one day, ultimately, at the congressional level. And, with his desire to serve and with an understanding of public affairs beyond his years, he\u2019s off to a great start!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch Christian in this video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.cfigueroa.me\/kgem<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Karen KrynenDirector of Communications – Don Bosco Technical Institute Interest and involvement in his community has led to a unique opportunity for Tech senior Christian Figueroa (CSEE \u201823). The senio class co-president and honor student is cohosting a bi-weekly program on KGEM-TV, the City of Monrovia\u2019s community cable station that broadcasts City Council meetings. A frequent in-person attendee at the meetings, Christian was approached … Continuar leyendo Tech Senior Co-Hosts Local TV Show<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":5728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20310044,678324057],"tags":[35890,24976],"class_list":["post-5726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-province-news","category-province-schools","tag-featured","tag-schools"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-1um","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/tech_student_cohost-2.png?fit=1204%2C608&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5729,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5726\/revisions\/5729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}