Grandmaster/Hanshi James Carter is the Chief Instructor and Head of Camp Carter International Karate Association. He currently holds the rank of 8th Dan in Shotokan Karate and 9 th Degree in Taekwondo (MooDukKwan). 

Grandmaster/Hanshi Carter was the first American Black Belt to win a Gold Medal in Kumite (fighting) at the World Shotokan Championship Karate Tournament in Portugal (2000) and has won many local, state and national championships through his many years of training.

Grandmaster/Hanshi Carter is actively involved in the martial arts community in California and around the world, and has traveled throughout Europe, Asia and South America as a keynote speaker and seminar presenter. He has served as Director of Security and Self-Defense for Funakoshi Karate World, Board Member of the California Taekwondo Foundation, Director of Public Relations for the Silicon Valley Korean American Federation, Kukkiwon Korea Master Instructor, and Executive Director of Operations at Korea Martial Arts Master Instructors Alliance. As a dedicated educator, Grandmaster/Hanshi Carter is cofounder of Global Technology Association and a Member of the Society for Neuroscience. He is also author of the children’s book Lil’ Sensei James Carter’s Adventures and the recently published educational book Neuroscience Outreach Through the Martial Arts.

Congratulations of the Lifetime Achievement Award for your 35+ years of community service, inspiring youth, adults and seniors in the Karate and Taekwondo, to not only learn these martial arts, but also to be of service to the community. And thank you for being an ambassador connecting the martial arts community together. 

Lori Gay, is the CEO of ​Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County (NHS) which serves as a catalyst for local residents, business and government representatives to work together to build stronger neighborhoods, improve the quality of life for low to moderate income families and revitalize communities into neighborhoods of choice. Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County (NHS) and its affiliates, NHS Neighborhood Redevelopment. Lori has helmed NHS for more over 32 years.
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• Corporation and NHS Neighborhood Lending Services touched the lives of more than 2.6 million households as a result of Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) during the fiscal year.
• Reinvested $1.22 billion into Los Angeles County neighborhoods by originating loans of more than $107.54 million, and grants of $2.32 million to local residents to improve housing and small business conditions, create homeownership opportunities and prevent foreclosure. We reinvested $15.99 million through real estate services and over $1.3 billion through foreclosure prevention efforts this last fiscal year;
• Assisted 10,068 families to preserve their homes and prevent foreclosure through aggressive foreclosure prevention fairs, mortgage relief workshops and other NHS programs, reinvesting over $1.68 billion in stabilizing neighborhood property values and equity retention. We assisted 329 families to become homeowners through direct loans, brokering activities and financial education classes;
• Educated and counseled 2,314 families regarding homeownership purchase, budgeting, credit repair, home maintenance, and insurance education.
• Completed 403 home inspections, 215 site visits, 154 work write-ups, monitored construction of 18 jobs, and completed 6 projects to help green and sustain our communities;
• Represented 25 low and moderate income buyers with an average of $340,323 in buying power, and closed 11 real estate transactions (acquisitions and home buyer purchases) totaling over $15.9 million in value; earning commissions of over $82,000;
• Coordinated 92 volunteers, who spent 920+ hours (a service value of $16,560 participating in two NHS Garden Days, four Compton Community Engagement Dinners and four Farmer’s Markets. NHS also hosted its first Juneteenth event with local farmers, artisans, nonprofits resource and health care providers, hosting more than 65 local vendors and partners who care about our diverse community. Through our partners, we raised in-kind donations totaling nearly $300,000;
• Our Center for Economic Recovery has continued to help families facing the pandemic and its impact through financial counseling, economic recovery, workforce development and loss mitigation support. We received over 60,000 service request calls, averaging over 241 calls per business day regarding tenant and rental assistance, small business support, mortgage relief and opportunities to purchase a home;
•  NHS continued to serve a very diverse demographic that reflected African Americans at 52%, Latino clients reflected 31%, Asians 16%, White 4%, with primarily ages 30-44 being the highest participant, and low-income clients being served 94% of the time.

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Congratulations on the President's Lifetime Achievement Award. Thank you - Lori, for making an impact on our community.  Thank you Gloria Tang, for the recommendation, vetting Lori's qualifications, and serving on the board of directors of NHS all these years​. 

Peter serves as the Executive Director of Chinatown Service Center of Los Angeles for nearly 40 years. It's mission is to provide outstanding services and advocacy that promote better quality of life and equal opportunity for immigrants and other communities.

• The actual roots of the CSC go back to 1971, when the Chinese Methodist Church hired a bilingual worker who worked at a small office in the church and counseled many newly arrived Chinese. Over the next four years, these early efforts attracted bilingual volunteers to assist its growing number of clients and its work gained broader community support.
• In 1975, CSC moved from its Church affiliation and was incorporated as a non-profit organization dedicated to community service. Shortly thereafter, the CSC became a United Way agency and received an allocation to continue its work. Later that year, they were awarded our first government grant from the City of Los Angeles to establish an employment training program.
• In March 1985, CSC began occupying part of the first floor of the newly built, low-income senior housing building called Cathay Manor. That location at 600 North Broadway in Chinatown, consists of approximately 5,600 square feet of office, training, and counseling facilities. In four years, CSC’s programs had outgrown the Cathay Manor space.
• In 1990, the Board of Directors took the bold step of purchasing 8,000 sq. ft. of space located on the fourth floor of Alpine Towers, 767 North Hill Street, about two blocks from the Cathay Manor site. Currently the site houses CSC’s employment and counseling programs, citizenship classes and a computer lab, and CSC’s administrative offices.
• In 1991, CSC completed improvements at Alpine Towers, establishing it as CSC’s “main office”. By April, remodeling of the Cathay Manor space was completed, doubling the size of our health clinic, and expanding our social service program space. That established the Cathay Manor site as their “branch office”.
• In 1992, CSC opened a small part time office in Monterey Park, located on Atlantic Blvd. After three years at that location, CSC’s Monterey Park Office moved to a more accessible site at Chandler and Garvey. The office offers assistance for the elderly who are living at home.
• In 2001, CSC opened a Youth Center at 727 North Broadway to expand its services to youths.
• In 2004, CSC remodeled its clinic space to provide dental services.
• In 2007, CSC’s clinic was designated a Federally Qualified Health Clinic (FQHC) and changed its name to CSC Community Health Center (CSC CHC) and began the transition to upgrading its records system to state-of-the-art electronic medical records shortly after that.
• With American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funds and an additional federal capital grant, in 2011 CSC remodeled and expanded its main office clinic to add three treatment rooms, one dental operatory, a larger waiting room, and overall improvements to patient flow.
• In 2015, CSC Community Health Center opened a second Dental Clinic in the City of Monterey Park at 850 South Atlantic Blvd., Suite 303.
• In 2016, CSC Community Health Center opened a third Dental Clinic and a second Behavioral Health Division in the City of Alhambra at 320 South Garfield Avenue Suite 126 and Suite 202 to expand one stop Community Health Clinic services in San Gabriel Valley district.
• In 2017, CSC Community Health Center another new Medical and Dental clinic service expanded to City of San Gabriel at 555-559 W. Las Tunas Drive, San Gabriel, 91776
• In 2019, CSC added specialties services, Chiropractic, G.I. and Podiatry.

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Congratulations on the President's Lifetime Achievement Award. Thank you - Peter, for making an impact on our community.  Thank you Gloria Tang, for the recommendation, vetting Peter's qualifications, and serving on the CSCLA board​ of directors all these years.