KIISS' Board of Directors
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- Debbie Kelley
- Nora Denise Manzanilla
- Michael O'Neal
- Amy Oro
- Lisa Owens
Nora Denise Manzanilla
Nora D. Manzanilla, B.S. is the Administrative Coordinator III of the Tobacco Enforcement Program (TEP) at the Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney. She has been an employee with the City for 5 years. The City of Los Angeles TEP unit is designed to create a vehicle for more comprehensive enforcement of existing tobacco control laws.
The central component of the TEP is the requirement that all tobacco vendors in Los Angeles obtain a permit from the City in order to sell tobacco products. Nora is responsible for planning and implementing the work of the unit. In addition, she is responsible for the LC6404.5 (Smoke-free Workplace Law) compliance and case management.
Nora is the liaison to other City Departments working on Tobacco-related issues and serves as the liaison for the tobacco control community and voluntary health organizations. She has been involved in Tobacco Control for over ten years. As the past Associate Program Director of L.A. LINK (Los Angeles Regional Tobacco Control Program), she successfully led the region in a plethora of policy activities. Nora is an Advisory Board Member of the Public Health Institute, Technical Assistance Legal Center and co-chair of the USC Hispanic/Latino Tobacco Education Partnership. Nora is responsible for analyzing statewide tobacco legislation for the City of Los Angeles
Michael O'Neal
William Michael (Mike) O'Neal was born in Ocala Florida October 28,1936 a second child and a second son. He graduated Ocala High School 1954 and Emory University 1958, In 1959 he began his service as a Food Service Officer in the US Air Force, leaving as a First Lieutenant USAF in1962. After his discharge in October of 1962 he worked for Restaurant Associates until late 1963. At this point he, his actor brother Patrick and Patrick's wife Cynthia, conceived and built the first new restaurant in the evolving Lincoln Center area, named it "The Ginger Man" and opened its doors in June 1964. Over the next four decades he, his brother and their several partners have owned and operated some 13 additional restaurants, primarily in New York City but extending as far south as Florida and as far west at California.
From the beginning an activist, Mike became a member of the New York State Restaurant Association and the National Restaurant Association in1966. He served as President of NY City Chapter of NYSRA and Chairman of NYSRA joining the Board of Directors of NRA in 1975. He was Chair of several committees including State Relations Committee twice and National Restaurant Show Chair twice and was, during that time Chairman of West Side Chamber of Commerce. Mike served on Manhattan's Community Board # 7 for 25 years, the Board of Directors of Symphony Space (a performing arts jewel on New York's Upper West Side) for over 25 years and the Board Of Directors of Riverside Park Fund, Fire Safety Foundation Board Of Directors. He has served on Board of Directors Project Find (which provides support and services to low, moderate income and homeless older people on New York's West Side) and is currently its Chairman of Board. He also hosts a Thanksgiving Day Dinner in Project Find's name for an average of a thousand people. He is a Founding Director and Secretary of Lincoln Square BID.
Married once in 1967 to Christine Covey, he continues to consider it his wisest decision. He has two children, a daughter Georgia, who with her husband Zach is an organic farmer in Virginia and Coke who is a photographer and artist and resides in NYC. Has one grandchild who lives with his mother in Santa Fe, NM.
O'Neal can usually be found at O'Neals', his restaurant at 49 West 64th Street or O'Neals' Cafe at 50 West 65th Street. He usually sits in his 5'X7' office playing solitaire when not in the front window reading the city's newspapers. Of course when the spring and summer months roll around, he may also be found doing similar things at O'Neals' West 79th Street Boat Basin Café overlooking the 79th Street Marina, the Hudson River and New Jersey's Palisades.