North State Parent magazine

A MAGAZINE SERVING FAMILIES IN BUTTE, GLENN, SHASTA, SISKIYOU & TEHAMA COUNTIES SINCE 1993

Jenna Christophersen

Jenna Christophersen

Jenna Christophersen is a Chico native who fell in love with writing as she wrote her first words as a student at McManus Elementary School.

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Be the Change

Delcie Mills, owner and co-director of AMJaMB, loves helping people with disabilities flourish and thrive. From growing up alongside her brother Jamie, who has autism, to working with a wide […]

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Be the change: Kimberly Johnson Creating Safe Spaces with Children’s Legacy Center

Imagine you must share your most personal, traumatic experience with a total stranger. You must answer this person’s probing questions in an unfamiliar setting, reliving a deeply troubling series of […]

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Lori Woodward: Reaching Students through a Growth Mindset

The mission of our be the change column is to feature community members from the North State who are actively making a difference in community life. If you would like  […]

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Be the Change: DANNY MUÑOZ

“There’s a little monkey,” says Danny Muñoz, looking into the eager little faces at Gerber Elementary School. “He’s a dreamer. He wants to be a DJ, but he is very […]

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Be the Change: Ben Hughes

What activity would motivate you to dedicate 40 years of your life? For Ben Hughes, it’s teaching. In 1963, Ben graduated from Chico State with a major in social science […]

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Be The Change — She’om Rose

“Some people,” says She’om Rose, “are guided to go to Mars, create AI or become world leaders. My path is a lot simpler. My part is to anchor the old […]

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Be The Change: Jenny Barber

“The thing I love the most about Jenny is that she has a ‘true north,’” says Aaron Hayes. “Her true north is to serve people and when she feels called […]

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Be the Change: Sensei Bernie Kelly

Bernie Kelly didn’t know he liked teaching, but he did know he liked karate. So when, in his 20s, his karate teacher Pat Haley offered him free karate lessons in […]

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Be The Change: Myriam Kalmogho

The honor of being an ambassador of Africa When Myriam Kalmogho moved to the United States in 2000 to attend Shasta College, she recognized that many people in her new […]

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Jenny Lowrey: Transforming Lives from the Ground Up

From the Ground Up Farms in Chico was born out of intense crisis. In 2009, Jenny Lowrey found herself facing the death of her husband, the disintegration of her health […]

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Be the Change – Sean Wilson

Sean Wilson discovered the magic of music through the piano. Amid an unpredictable and unsettled home life, Sean found that “music just calmed me and let me express my anger, […]

Yoshie Muratani teaches orchestra students to work together, playing important notes as characters, each part contributing to the story of the music. Photos by  Isabel Ruiz.

Be the Change – Yoshie Muratani

Yoshie Muratani will never forget the exact moment she truly fell in love with music. As the daughter of an operatic singer in the Hyōgo prefecture of Japan, Yoshie had […]