Comstock's magazine • 30th March 2022

Women in Leadership: Gloria Salazar

As CEO of San Joaquin Regional Transit District, an agency that provides public transportation for the Stockton metropolitan area, Gloria Salazar started her orientation for new employees with a prompt. “Pretend this is the first day of the job for your daughter, your sister,” she would tell them, as they planned bus routes and managed service.

Comstock's magazine • 28th January 2022

A Bright Outlook

Despite the supply chain disturbances, inflation and staffing challenges, most business leaders expect to do well in 2022, according to a national survey released this month by JPMorgan Chase.

Comstock's magazine • 15th October 2021

How ‘Sewer Credits’ Are Bringing New Life to the Old Campbell Soup Manufacturing Plant

When the Campbell Soup manufacturing plant in south Sacramento closed in July 2013, it brought an end not only to its own 66-year run but to more than a century of canning history in Sacramento.

Comstock's magazine • 15th September 2021

Status Check: University of the Pacific Reopens After Major Changes

The oldest university in California is buzzing again.

Comstock's magazine • 19th August 2021

How an Expert in U.S.-China Trade Adapted to the Pandemic

Margaret Wong, a leader in U.S.-China trade for over three decades, used to travel between the two countries up to eight times a year. Here’s how she shifted gears when the borders closed.

AP NEWS • 24th June 2021

Now What? Key Takeaways and Conclusions from The Consumer Goods Forum's 2021 Global Summit

PARIS, June 24, 2021 /3BL Media/ - The Consumer Goods Forum’s virtual 2021 Global Summit closed this afternoon, the conclusion of four days of focused conversation around challenges and opportunities in the consumer goods industry.

Comstock's magazine • 15th June 2021

A Culture of Deeper Learning

In March, University of the Pacific announced that Mary Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, the president of the San Francisco Public Library Commission and the vice provost of diversity and community engagement at the University of San Francisco, would become Pacific’s first vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Comstock's magazine • 11th March 2021

Women in Leadership: Mary Paasch

Mary Paasch, water engineer and sheep breeder, credits her success in both dams and rams to a genuine love for the work.

Comstock's magazine • 8th March 2021

Changing the Skyline

Women make up less than 10 percent of workers in the construction industry, one of the services that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deemed “essential” during the coronavirus pandemic. The National Association of Women in Construction sees opportunities in that gap.

Comstock's magazine • 12th February 2021

Game of Skill

In December 2019, a few months before the fastest drop in global stock markets in financial history, Mark Otero launched Alice Capital, a hedge fund designed to bypass emotion.

Comstock's magazine • 3rd February 2021

Leading With Energy

Comstock’s spoke to Lau about leading the country’s sixth-largest community-owned electric utility and about his plan to reach zero carbon emissions within 10 years.

Comstock's magazine • 12th November 2020

Bridging the Digital Divide

As industries shifted toward digitization and automation over the past few decades, labor experts, educators and politicians have advocated for accessible technology training programs to help workers find and keep sustainable jobs. The pandemic has proven their point.

Comstock's magazine • 19th October 2020

Workforce Woes

In September, as many schools started online or hybrid instruction, 865,000 women dropped out of the workforce. We asked Amanda Blackwood, president and CEO of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, about the challenges currently facing women in the workforce and how employers and policymakers can help lighten their load.

Comstock's magazine • 14th October 2020

Great Expectations at UC Davis

On Oct. 9, as students completed their second week of mostly remote instruction, UC Davis announced a $2 billion fundraising campaign, Expect Greater: From UC Davis. For the World. The campaign, which has already raised $1.2 billion since its “quiet phase” began in July 2016, is set to fund a wide range of projects and initiatives on and off the Davis campus.

Comstock's magazine • 8th October 2020

Community Connections

Founded in 1972 as the Mexican American Chamber of Commerce, the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has 550 members in the region, with the majority concentrated in Sacramento. Comstock’s spoke with president and CEO Cathy Rodriguez Aguirre about SHCC and how it has worked to meet the needs of its members during the pandemic.

Comstock's magazine • 11th June 2020

A Kick-Start for Startups

Cameron Law is the executive director of The Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Sacramento State. Comstock’s spoke with Law about the ways both the center and the local entrepreneurial scene are evolving in the face of a crisis.

Comstock's magazine • 27th March 2020

Business as Usual in Home Building

California health officials have confirmed that construction workers, including those building new housing, are part of the “essential critical infrastructure workforce” allowed to continue operating during the statewide shelter-in-place order.

Comstock's magazine • 27th March 2020

Follow Her Lead: Raksmey Arun Roeum-Castleman

Raksmey Arun Roeum-Castleman’s staff at Telecare Corporation, a behavioral health service provider in Stockton, once drew their boss as a hummingbird. Making up its body were words that they associated with her: passionate, enthusiastic, free-spirited, spiritual, kind.

Comstock's magazine • 13th March 2020

Follow Her Lead: Olivia Kasirye

In 2016, four years into Dr. Olivia Kasirye’s tenure as public health officer of Sacramento County, the fentanyl overdoses began. Fifty-two people in the greater Sacramento area overdosed after taking counterfeit narcotics in March and April of that year alone. As federal agents launched their investigation into the source of the pills, Kasirye’s media team lined her up for TV appearances and radio and print interviews around the region.

Comstock's magazine • 13th March 2020

Follow Her Lead: Molly Hawks

As she stood above the Sacramento River at the Tower Bridge Dinner in September 2019, plating a delicate pasta torte under the watch of the legendary San Francisco chef Suzette Gresham, Molly Hawks suddenly realized how far she had come.