SILVER LAKE COMMUNITY LEADER SCOTT CRAWFORD RECEIVES PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT 

Local Activist and Volunteer Appointed to Position by President Obama

Los Angeles  –  Community activist Scott Crawford has been appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the Selective Service System Local Board in the State of California. 

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Crawford said, “It is a great honor to serve my country in this capacity.  The Selective Service plays an important role in administering benefits and programs, and I am grateful to receive this appointment from President Obama.”

The Selective Service System is an independent federal agency within the Executive Branch of the Federal government.  Even during peacetime, the agency is aided by appointed volunteers serving on local boards and district appeal boards.  Local board members act as the initial classifying authority and consider administrative denials for those wanting to be exempt from the registration process.

Scott Crawford is a community volunteer, businessperson, actor and was the Los Angeles Lion’s Club “Citizen of the Year” for 2014.  He served as President of the Friends of Hollyhock House from 2000 to 2006 and was Co-Chair of Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Conference in 2005.  He is the founder of Archifest (A celebration of Los Angeles Architecture) and “Theater Partners in Residence” with the City of LA Recreation and Parks Department.

Scott has volunteered for a variety of Los Angeles organizations including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, AIDS Project Los Angeles, and founded the Shanti “Empty Bowls Project”. The Theatre of Hope for Abused Women also rewarded him with the Outreach Program Award. In 2014, Scott was elected Chair of the Barnsdall Arts. 

A Chicago native, Scott Crawford came to Los Angeles more than twenty five years ago to continue his successful acting career.  After settling in Silver Lake, Scott soon turned his attention to community service and activism.  Crawford joined the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Governing Board for Region 1 and became an advisor to Make Music Los Angeles, the Silver Lake Jubilee and the Sunset Free Clinic.  Mr. Crawford also served as a Board member and co-author of the bi-laws for the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council.