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# How to get there from here
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/how-to-get-there-from-here/
- Published: 2003-11-08T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:11:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Pico, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Success is around the corner at Santa Monica College. Emmy Award-winning television journalist and author Yolanda Nava will give a free lecture, “You CAN Get There from Here: 10 Steps for Success,” at 11:15 a.m. on Nov. 20 in the art lecture hall 214, at Santa Monica College, 1900 Pico Blvd.

The inspirational talk, which will draw from her award-winning book “It’s All in the Frijoles,” will focus on things that Nava says she wishes she had known when she was in school.

Aside from her work as a television journalist and author, Nava is an educator, consultant and community leader. She was a co-founder/owner of Ponce-Nicasio Broadcasting in Sacramento, the first Latino-owned and operated television station in the U.S., and she writes a column for Eastern Group Publications, the nation’s largest chain of bilingual newspapers.

Frijoles is a book of virtues, based on a rich compilation of anecdotes from heroes whose teachings have helped mold character for generations.

Nava was honored in 2001 as one of five key Latino leaders in California by the state’s Hispanic Heritage Month Cal Teach Campaign to encourage people to enter the teaching profession.

Nava’s lecture is sponsored by the SMC Associates, a private organization that funds speakers and special programs on campus, and the SMC Communications Department. For information, call (310) 434-4003.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on November 8, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/110803.pdf?ref=smdp.com)