Central Los Angeles

The Central Los Angeles community focuses on events and connections for the below areas:

  • Beverly Hills

  • Downtown LA

  • North Hollywood

  • West Hollywood

  • Valley Village

We recognize that SoCal is a large area and we are all very spread out. Feel free to join any event you’d like, regardless of location!

Upcoming Events

Meet Your Connector

Christina Bull Arndt Class of 1989

Christina Bull Arndt is a native of San Diego and was in the Mount Holyoke College class of 1989. After working for the US Navy for a couple years, she attended UCLA Law School. She is a Supervising Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice where she leads the Housing Justice Team, which responds to California’s housing crisis by enforcing laws addressing housing production, tenant rights, environmental justice, and fair housing. Christina also coordinates the Honors Program, which brings new lawyers dedicated to public service to the office. In addition to her activity with the Mount Holyoke Club of Southern California, Christina serves of the board of MOSTE – Motivating Our Students Through Experience – a college-access program for girls from underserved Los Angeles neighborhoods. She is also active in her church, Westwood Hills Congregational Church. Christina lives in Los Angeles with her husband and has adult son in St. Louis and a daughter at Boston College.

Meet Your Connector

Mary Sheehan (she/her) Class of 1976

Originally from New York, I graduated with a degree in French with a minor in Economics. I went directly to Wharton Graduate School where I obtained an MBA in Marketing. 

First and best job:  Consumer Marketing for several Time Inc. magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Money, and then New Publication Development.  From there, I was recruited to work for a French company, in Paris, with responsibility for signing English-language publications in the UK to their radically new on-line subscription management software. 

Married in 1984 to a French citizen, we returned to the US and California where I raised two sons while travelling between continents.   

As an entrepreneur I created two small businesses, both in French wine imports and fine art publishing for French artists (sculpture and painting). 

I began a second career in volunteer work starting with public school booster and library organizations, neighborhood associations, and culminating in election to the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council. You could say that I have been a PROJECT MANAGER most of my life, with strong organizational and interpersonal skills, as well as a determination to keep up with new technologies. 

In addition to attending the rare visits of MHC faculty to Los Angeles, I got hooked by the book group in 2012!  Meeting other uncommon women has enriched my West Coast life and promises great new vistas for expanding MoHo activities in Southern California. 

I played four years of Field Hockey in South Hadley, plus a couple of seasons of lacrosse.  Still speak fluent French, I’m an active swimmer and tennis player, and feel passionate about sports equity, literacy, and women’s health.