Welcome

NANDC is a self-governed, self-directed and independent organization empowered by the Los Angeles City Charter. This charter offers neighborhood councils a role in the City's decision-making process. We as citizens are given the opportunity and obligation to stay involved with developments in our area that affect us.  Come get involved!  After all, it's your community!

Take a few moments to find out who we are, what we do and how you can become involved.

What We Do

We promote public participation in city governance and decision making processes, to make government more responsive to our local needs and requests,  creating more opportunities to build partnerships with government and private entities to create more opportunities for our neighborhood.  We work with stakeholders to make a difference in the community with such projects as I Hablo U, the Pet Park Project, and the Community Involvement Program.



How To Get Involved

Anyone who lives, works or owns property in our boundaries is welcome to get involved. View the Boundary Map. Opportunities include:

Come to a meeting! We meet First Thursday of the month from 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. in the Martin Luther King Park gymnasium, 39th and Western Avenue, the building just south of the Exposition Park Library, entrance on the south side.

Join a committee: Go to the Committee list under What We Do on the top menu

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Our mailing address is:
PO Box 77367
Los Angeles, CA 90007
Who We Are

Board Member List

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President
Shawn Simons brings her decades of entertainment producing experience to the board with honed skills in strategic partnerships, budgets, and event planning.  As a community organizer Shawn likes to look for where the needs of the diverse community intersect to create an integrated and vibrant neighborhood.  Shawn chairs the Economic Development Committee and is a NC Budget Rep for South LA.  She sits on NANDC's Budget and Finance and Outreach Committees and runs a community animal welfare non-profit.
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Vice President

Rohan Gupta has been involved in the North Area since 1996. Initially as a student and thereafter creating the real estate company, Stuho, a student housing provider.  He brings a unique skill set as an active entrepreneur, having successfully started two companies.  In addition, as a local business professional with 10 years of experience Rohan understands the small business community perspective.  Utilizing this combination he hopes to become further involved in the North Area.
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Treasurer
As a neighborhood resident, USC alumna and local social service provider employee, Jill brings an extensive picture of what is happening in our neighborhood to the council. She has a strong commitment to serve our neighborhood where her family has lived and worked in for 100 years.  Jill believes that as citizens, we need to be involved in what our neighborhoods will look like in another 100 years and embraces that our community accepts and encourages increasing cultural diversity.

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Area 1 Representative
Leslie Evans has lived in the Adams-Normandie area since 1988. He is president of his block club and has chaired the NANDC Public Safety Committee since May 2003. His committee works with city agencies to clear up blight locations and call attention to crime problems. It has closed more than 230 cases to date. He is also a member of the Southwest LAPD Community Police Advisory Board and webmaster for the West Adams Heritage Association. He holds an MA in sociology from UCLA and is the author of several books.
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Area 2 Representative
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Area 3 Representative
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Area 3 Representative
A current student at USC, Ashley is a Political Science Major with a minor in Spanish. Ashley feels it is important, as a student, to be involved with the surrounding community. Having worked in the community with campus volunteer groups, Ashley hopes to strengthen ties between the University and the surrounding area along with helping to create a better community for both locals and students.
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At Large
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Sabrina Brown
USC Public Safety Representative
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Andrea Canty

Education

Andrea Canty has resided in the 8th Council District for most of her life.  She is committed to maintaining a high quality of life for her community.  She enjoys creating and supporting programs for students and families throughout her community.

She is plays a very active role as the Education Representative and conducts parent workshops at various schools.  Andrea has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and is a proud graduate of Susan Miller Dorsey High School.
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Secretary and USC Representative
Eddie brings his extensive on line networking experience to the board as the creator of LeimertParkBeat.com and UniversityParkFamily.com helping the communities to speak to each other as residents can post their own news, as well as read about what's going on in their neighborhoods.  Eddie works at University of Southern California as a media representative and cover's extensively on community outreach.
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At Large Representative

A native of Nicaragua, Yelba moved to South Los Angeles with her family at the age of 5 and has resided here for 25 years.  She attended 32nd Street USC/MaST High School and is currently a 3rd year Medical Student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where she is part of the Charles R. Drew University Medical Education Program.  Her interests include providing health-care services to underprivileged communities and working towards improving the quality of living of people with limited resources.  As a home-owner of two properties in the area she enjoys historic home restoration and preservation.  Yelba looks forward to giving back and actively contributing to the well-being of the community she grew up in.    
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Area 1 Representative
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Our Name

The early Eighth District Empowerment Congress, created by now Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas was a community-based education and mobilization program. It has been acknowledged as the model for the Los Angeles citywide neighborhood council system created by the change City Charter.

We still proudly carry the early moniker in our name as the 'Empowerment Congress North Area Neighborhood Development Council'.  You may call us NANDC for short!

Our Community

NANDC is located in West Adams, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, with most of its buildings erected between 1880 and 1925. It was once the wealthiest district in the city, with its Victorian mansions and sturdy Craftsman bungalows home to Downtown businessmen and professors and academicians at USC. In the 1990s, three areas of West Adams were designated as Historic Preservation Overlay Zones by the city of Los Angeles, in recognition of their outstanding architectural heritage.