Malina Saval

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Malina Saval

Denise S. Brown. MD has built an estimable career as a Stanford-trained physician, CEO, strategic adviser, and widely sought-after speaker. She’s also a board member of seven companies drawing profits in the eight-figure range, a dedicated wife and the mother of two grown sons. She’s presumptively done it all. But Brown’s success came on the heels of struggle, sadness and heartache.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Malina Saval

Thirty-five years have passed since Erik and Lyle Menendez were arrested and charged with special circumstance murder in the 1989 shooting deaths of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion. A sensational media circus—including two trials, the second of which resulted in a murder conviction and a sentence of life in prison without parole—has followed ever since.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Malina Saval

Ann Lee has made it her mission to do whatever she can to save the world. The co-founder and CEO of CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), launched by Sean Penn and Lee in 2019 and initially established as J/P HRO, has transformed the Los Angeles-based philanthropic organization into an international NGO powerhouse.

1 month ago | pasadenamag.com | Malina Saval

As I write this, it is raining. It is February. January, a month that seemed to last a year, a year that seemed to last an eternity, is finally over. The Eaton Fire, one of the most destructive and deadliest natural catastrophes in California history, is contained, a tsunami of debris and incalculable loss in its wake. Neighborhoods are razed to the ground, businesses incinerated, friends and loved ones left to sort out their lives. Where do we go? What happens next?

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Malina Saval

One’s high school prom is the stuff of which memories–and famous scenes in movies and TV series a la Pretty in Pink, Grease and Netflix’s The Prom–are made. But for the graduating senior year class at John Muir High School in Pasadena, those dreams of fancy dresses, tuxedo cummerbunds and corsages are coming on the heels of the devastating Eaton Fire, a blaze that destroyed the homes of 200 John Muir students and left many wondering how they were going to rebuild–and where.