Robert Haw, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) systems engineer and Interplanetary Navigator, has worked on exploration missions spanning the solar system from Mercury to Pluto. He is also the founder of JPL’s Climate Change Symposium.
Cassie Lam and her family moved from Vietnam, seeking a better life. They settled down in Monterey Park where Cassie was surrounded and grew up around the diverse immigrant population that the San Gabriel Valley is known for. She later attended Mark Keppel high school in Alhambra before leaving for college at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Council Member Andrew Rodriguez is a lifelong resident of Walnut. When elected and sworn-in, Andrew was California’s youngest council member serving in municipal government at the time. He was elected to serve as Mayor in July 2019, making him the City’s youngest Mayor in history.