By Dianne Anderson At just a hundred pounds soaking wet, Gigi Munos stepped into the Inland Empire Conservation Corps hauling rocks almost double her weight, all in a day’s work, but her real reward is the job satisfaction. Now graduated, she soon joins the Backcountry Trail Building crew in Colorado after three years of preparing ...

By Dianne Anderson Spoken like a true engineer, Robin Thorne explains how her nonprofit outreach operates in ways that other like-minded engineers can appreciate. “How would I describe it? Demo Chicks are more of a conduit,” said Robin Thorne, founder and CEO of CTI Environmental, Inc. in Long Beach. “What we like to do is ...