CalState-Long Beach: Lena Gonzalez '09 and her unlikely road to the Senate floor
June 08, 2026
June 08, 2026
LONG BEACH, California, June 8 -- California State University Long Beach campus issued the following news:
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'Everyone just counted you out': Lena Gonzalez '09 and her unlikely road to the Senate floor
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By the time Lena Gonzalez '09 enrolled at Cal State Long Beach, she was a working mother in her mid-20s who'd spent years collecting classes at a community college. Raised in North Long Beach by a truck-driving fath . . .
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'Everyone just counted you out': Lena Gonzalez '09 and her unlikely road to the Senate floor
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By the time Lena Gonzalez '09 enrolled at Cal State Long Beach, she was a working mother in her mid-20s who'd spent years collecting classes at a community college. Raised in North Long Beach by a truck-driving fath . . .