Aryana Noroozi

The Inland Empire Resource Center (IERC) opened a new location at 325 West Hospitality Lane in San Bernardino on August 27. The event celebrated IERC Executive Director Linda Jackson, a resident of San Bernardino for over twenty years who used her background in escrow and real estate to help members of her church who experienced trouble with their mortgages from her kitchen table. 

Today, Jackson heads the IERC,  a nonprofit organization in California that offers housing-related services, such as credit and financial counseling, homebuyer support and eviction prevention. As a HUD-approved housing counseling agency, IECR sets out to promote financial stability and self-sufficiency for individuals and organizations in the Inland Empire community through education and support programs.

Check out the Black Voice News coverage of the event below!

Pastor Reginald Woods of San Bernardino’s Life Changing Ministries uses anointing oil from the Holy Land to symbolize God’s blessing to pray for Jackson and the new office space at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
Inland Empire Resource Center Executive Director Linda Jackson poses for a portrait in her office at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
Celebration-goers raise their hands in prayer at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
Jackson (left) and San Bernardino Mayor Tran (right) raise their hands in prayer at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
Karen Wiggins, HUD-certified housing counselor at the Inland Empire Resource Center, places a hand on Jackson’s back in prayer at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
Jackson and San Bernardino Mayor Tran ready for Jackson’s ribbon cutting at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
(From left to right) Inland Empire Resource Center Hud Counselor, Ernest Diaz, Jackson, San Bernardino Mayor Tran and Senior Representative of the 50th Assembly District, Michael Townsend celebrate moments after Jackson cuts the ribbon at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
Harpist Tomoko Sato performs during the reception at the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
Inland Empire Resource Center Director of Operations Joe Spencer poses for a portrait during the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. “The goal has always been to reach the low to moderate income communities, to bring education, to bring awareness, and to meet the people right where they are and take them where they want to go,” he said. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)
(From left to right) Inland Empire Resource Center Staff Catherine Johnson, Alisha Johnson and Kira Williams gather at the front desk during the grand opening celebration of the Inland Empire Resource Center’s new office space in San Bernardino on August 27, 2024. (Aryana Noroozi for Black Voice News / CatchLight Local)

Black Voice News photojournalist Aryana Noroozi was born in San Diego, California and graduated with a master’s degree from The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her love for visual storytelling led her to document immigrant and deportee communities and those struggling with addiction. She was a 2020 Pulitzer Center Crisis Reporting Fellow and a GroundTruth Project Migration Fellow. She is currently a CatchLight/Report for America corps member employed by Black Voice News. You can learn more about her at aryananoroozi.com. You can email her at aryana@blackvoicenews.com.