Board of Directors - OC Press Club

The 2024-25 Orange County Press Club Board of Directors.

Board Officers

DAVID N. YOUNG, PRESIDENT

David N. Young is a working journalist and internationally recognized public affairs strategist who has worked in a variety of public capacities throughout his career. He first joined the Orange County Press Club Board in 2019. Currently, he is an editor with Community Media Corporation and has formerly served as editor of the Catalina Islander, the Seal Beach Sun and other publications. Based for many years in Washington, D.C., he now lives and works in Southern California. As a strategist, has counseled local, state, and federal agencies, Fortune 500 companies, public officials and nonprofits. He was awarded the journalism award in high school, the telecasting innovation award in college and was first named to Who’s Who in America in 1994. He attended the LSU School of Journalism and studied broadcasting at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. His work has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Information Agency and others.

ANDREW TURNER, VICE PRESIDENT

Andrew Turner reports on a wide range of subjects pertaining to the cities covered by The Daily Pilot, from city council business to community events, and from art showcases to sports. For a dozen years, he has covered the issues important to our communities, including two presidential visits since joining news coverage during the coronavirus pandemic. Turner holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and history from California State University, Long Beach.

HANNA KANG, TREASURER

Hanna Kang is a reporter at the Orange County Register covering Orange County politics. She previously worked as a fellow at Business Insider covering national politics and the 2022 midterm election, and before that, she contributed to Crosstown, a data-driven nonprofit newsroom based in Los Angeles.

BREEANA GREENBERG, SECRETARY

Breeana Greenberg is a lecturer for Chapman University’s journalism program and freelance reporter. She grew up in Newport Beach and attended high school in Santa Ana. After graduating from Chapman in 2021, she worked for two years as a city reporter at the Dana Point Times, a Times Media Group publication. She’s also been published by the Laguna Beach Independent, Newport Beach Independent and Voice of OC.

Board Members

CLARA BEARD

Clara Beard is the managing editor for the Laguna Beach Independent. She started with the Indy covering all beats relating to the city in 2022. Clara got her start as an associate editor for the Williams-Grand Canyon News where she exclusively covered all issues relating to the Grand Canyon, and Navajo and Hopi tribes. While working with the Williams-Grand Canyon News, she volunteered as an AZ Press Club board member. Clara is also a cycling journalist and has covered dozens of Grand Tours including the Tour de France. Clara lives in Dana Point.

HOSAM ELATTAR

Hosam Elattar is a reporter with the Voice of OC who has covered Orange County since 2020. During his tenure as a local award winning reporter, Elattar has covered school districts’ response to the COVID pandemic, a corruption scandal in Anaheim, the official recognition of Anaheim’s Little Arabia after decades of community advocacy, heightened food insecurity since the start of the global pandemic, a push for ethnic studies courses at local schools, housing & homelessness, religion and local government across North OC.

CARRIE FREITAS

Carrie Freitas has been working in PR for more than 30 years. She loves what she does as CEO of Kitchen Table Marketing + PR (KTM), mostly because she gets to work with journalists. That’s what she really wanted to be when she grew up. While at UCLA, Carrie was an intern at Orange Coast Magazine, KABC-TV Eyewitness News, KNBC-TV News and CNN. She had an audition tape, an agent and a voice coach but then lost her nerve when it came time to pursue a career in broadcast news. In addition to her work at KTM, she has written for Riviera and Coast Magazines, served as Editor-in-Chief for Coast Kids Magazine for 3 years, launched Bask Magazine for a local real estate firm, and has published her own online magazine, Tableau Magazine, since 2020. Carrie also hosted a podcast (“Interesting People I Know”) for 28 episodes and has just launched her new podcast, “The Curious Community.” She is a staunch advocate in support of the importance of local media/journalism and also the LGBTQ+ community.

HANNA KANG

PATTY MARSTERS

Patty Marsters has served on the board of the Orange County Press Club since 1998, acting in many roles, including president, treasurer and secretary. For the past several years, she has focused her organizational skills on putting together the annual Excellence In Journalism contest. After the demise of OC Weekly, she moved on to LW Weekly, the newspaper for Seal Beach’s Leisure World residents and the surrounding community. Patty now serves as a communications specialist for the Newport-Mesa Unified School District. She also mentors aspiring writers at Newport Harbor High School and co-leads a multilevel Girl Scout troop. In her spare time, Patty reads for fun, creates baked goods, and rants at inanimate objects (such as her computer) about her grammatical and writing pet peeves. She prefers writing in the first person, but uses third person for these sorts of biographies. She lives in Orange with her two daughters, two cats, an aging goldfish, and a rotating cast of snails with unusual names.

DESTINY TORRES

Destiny Torres is a local reporter at the Orange County Register covering county government, the city of Santa Ana, homelessness, health and other issues. She previously covered the tech industry for the L.A. Business Journal, as well as freelanced for LA School Report and Remezcla.