On Saturday, September 22, more than 300 people gathered at The Grand here in Long Beach as the Long Beach Post, in a partnership with Choura Events, presented its inaugural 30 Women to Watch event, a night designed to honor the many female citizens of this city who are altering the landscape with their own definitions of what it means to be a woman.
In addition to featuring the winners in a special pull-out section in the most recent print edition of the Post, we will be running profiles and photos of each woman, one per day, for the next 30 days.
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One of the city’s most well-known entrepreneurs, Kerstin Kansteiner began her work in Long Beach with the creation of one of its most popular coffeeshops—Portfolio Coffeehouse, which sits as an eastern anchor on Retro Row. Now having moved into the East Village with Berlin, she is once again altering an entire neighborhood with her innovative and accessible approach to Long Beach’s food service establishments.