City Manager Gerald R. Miller announced Melissa Morgan will be the Human Dignity officer for the city of Long Beach. Morgan will be responsible for the implementation of the city’s Human Dignity program, promotion of cultural awareness, hate crime education and administration of the city’s Hate Crime Response Team. She will also serve as the lead staff person to the city’s Youth and Gang Violence Prevention Task Force.

The students in the Dream Dialogue program previously have participated in other ADL youth programs, which often include trips in the U.S. and abroad to further their education about cultural diversity. For “Faces of LA,” the students worked for a year and traveled to many places that they had never visited, says Melissa Morgan, assistant project director for A World of Difference Institute.