For decades, Long Beach’s Cambodia Town and the surrounding area has been divvied up among various districts in the city — currently districts 1, 2, 4 and 6. Leaders and allies launched a campaign that aims to absorb the Cambodian community under one voting district, for a stronger political voice.
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Crystal was raised in South Los Angeles and is the first college graduate in her family. She is a class of 2016 CSULB graduate who has served as an editor for her campus newspaper and freelanced for the Long Beach Post and Random Length News. Crystal is now a Report for America corps member, covering the Westside for the Long Beach Post. Follow her work @crystalniebla on Twitter and @crystalniebla_media on Instagram.