Recently honored with the "Longevity Award" at this year's Orange County Business Journal’s Family-Owned Business ceremony, Northgate González Markets is more than just a family grocery-store chain — it’s an immersive, authentic Mexican food experience. Founded in 1980 by family patriarch Don Miguel Gonzalez, who emigrated to the United States in the early 1960’s to support his growing family back in Mexico, today the family-run business owns 44 stories in five counties – including the flagship Mercado González Northgate Market on Harbor Boulevard in Costa Mesa—with 7,500 employees and $1B in sales. Beyond the grocery stores, however, the Gonzales family are also recognized for their commitment to giving back to the communities they serve.

Join OC World guest host Gaddi Vasquez as he explores a recent Orange County poll conducted by UCI's School of Social Ecology. Discover how the votes of Latino/Hispanic and Asian communities in Orange County could well shape the next election!

Orange County resident Frank Cruz is a groundbreaking media personality whose complex life story is captured in his book, "Straight Out of Barrio Hollywood: The Adventures of Telemundo Co-Founder, Chicano History Professor, TV Anchorman, Network Executive, and Public Broadcasting Leader.” His varied accomplishments read like an epic journey through the heart and soul of the Chicano experience in Southern California. Cruz eventually became a co-founder of Telemundo, a global Spanish-speaking television network that today transcends borders and unites communities around the world. His tireless dedication to amplifying Latino voices transformed the media landscape, ushering in a new era of more inclusive representation.

The Irvine Ranch is nearly a hundred thousand acres in Orange County – as big as Philadelphia — three times the size of San Francisco. And what a ranch . . . in just a few decades it has been transformed into a master-planned communities of several cities and home to nearly a half million people, a thriving business community, a major university, and repeatedly ranked as one of the best and safest places to live. Today the ranch is the centerpiece of the Irvine Company—one of the nation’s biggest real estate firms. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Reiff interview Mike Stockstill, co-author of a book that spans the history of of this Orange County real estate and its storied family legacy.