"A native Angeleno, Stewart grew up in the San Fernando Valley and moved to LA's Eastside when she was 20. "I absolutely f**king love this city," she insists. "There's a kind of unified dissonance because it's not really a city as much as a cluster of neighborhoods, but there's unity in that. I like the spaciousness. You can decide how you want to fill it.""
"She is indefatigable in her championing of the Downtown Women's Center, an organization founded in 1978 that was the first in the U.S. to provide permanent supportive housing to homeless women-a mission it continues to pursue to this day, in addition to a health clinic that exclusively serves women in LA's Skid Row community and a drop-in day center, where women can receive three daily meals and access to showers, restrooms, mail, laundry, and telephones."
Stewart grew up in the San Fernando Valley and moved to LA's Eastside at age 20, expressing deep affection for Los Angeles and its neighborhood-based unity and spaciousness. She prefers LA's art and culture to the East Coast, finding the latter heavier and less breathable. Stewart actively champions the Downtown Women's Center, praising its permanent supportive housing, health clinic, and drop-in services that provide meals and basic needs to women in Skid Row. She criticizes the city's inadequate response to homelessness, lauds grassroots leadership such as Amy Turk, and calls for broader, non-tokenized change in the Highland Theatre, film industry, and city direction.
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