California’s largest youth grant backs South L.A. film apprenticeships – Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

California’s largest youth grant backs South L.A. film apprenticeships – Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, visited an innovative apprenticeship program last week aimed at opening up more career pathways for underrepresented youth in the entertainment industry — including women of color. In a visit to the Handy Foundation offices and a sound stage and production training facility at a local office of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Siebel Newsom met with pro…