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Voices of the Community

George Koster, Voices of the Community

Welcome to Voices of the Community, we strive to amplify solutions facing where we live through featuring residents like you, along with change makers, and thought leaders to support our fellow residents and people visiting or working in our area. “Our goal is to feature the unheard comments and stories from communities across our region in hopes to create dialogues to address our common problems and support the change of the status quo.” - George Koster, Creator/Host

society & culture documentary

All Episodes

00:15:37

Community Forward SF

Voices of the Community ·

2020/07/21

In this episode we feature the voice of Sammie Rayner, Chief Programming Officer with Community Forward SF. Over the past 40 plus years Community Forward SF has been helping our unhoused community members to move off the street, find comprehensive services and stabilize their lives.Community Forward SF serves over 6,000 unhoused community members annually. Some of the most vulnerable community members are cis-gendered and trans women. Community Forward SF is the leading agency addressing the unique

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00:20:07

LavaMaeX

Voices of the Community ·

2020/07/21

In this episode we feature the voices of Doniece Sandoval founder and Kris Kepler Chief Program & Strategy Officer of LavaMaeX. I first met Doniece back in 2014 when she was launching lava mae through her innovative idea of converting old Muni Buses into Mobile Showers. To find out more about the origins of lava mae please listen to Episode Two in my three part series titled Homeless in San FranciscoLavaMaeX is the latest iteration of Doniece’s original vision of providing radical hospitality to

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00:17:57

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank

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2020/07/21

In this episode we feature the voice of Katy McKnight, the Director of Community Engagement with the San Francisco Marin Food Bank. The San Francisco Marin Food Bank’s mission is to end hunger in San Francisco and Marin where one in four neighbors is at risk of hunger. The Food Bank was providing food for Thirty Thousand households per week.This was all before the Covid 19 pandemic hit and tens of thousands of people in San Francisco and Marin lost their jobs. The need is estimated to have doubled

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00:16:48

Miracle Messages

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2020/07/21

In this episode we feature the voice of Kevin Adler, the Founder and CEO of Miracle Messages. Kevin started Miracle Messages in honor of his uncle Mark, who lived on-and-off the streets for 30 years. Miracle Messages helps reunite families through helping community members who are unhoused to record short video messages to a family member. Volunteers, referring nonprofit and government partners or formerly homeless ambassadors help record the message. Then a network of volunteer digital detectives

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00:17:54

The San Francisco Mime Troupe

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2020/07/01

Title: “Support all of the performers, artists, designers, directors, writers, and technicians, whenever you can”In this episode we feature the voice of Michael Gene Sullivan, a Board Member, writer, director and performer of The San Francisco Mime Troupe. Over the past Sixty Plus Years The San Francisco Mime Troupe Collective has created and produced theater through the lens of the working class by exposing social and economic injustice with a call to action to make the necessary changes on behalf

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00:11:17

Project Homeless Connect’s Outreach to Newly...

Voices of the Community ·

2019/12/16

This is a special episode of Voices of the Community featuring the voices of Meghan Freebeck, and Carla Praglin of Project Homeless Connect. Since my mom died back in the fall of 2016 I have used some of the monies I inherited from her to support the work of Project Homeless Connect through an annual holiday crowdfunding campaign. Over the past two years together with friends, family, and listeners like you, we have raised over Ten Thousand Dollars to provide dental, vision, hearing and housing

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02:28:07

State of Our Youth: A Stockton Townhall Meeting :...

Voices of the Community ·

2019/07/06

In the process of producing the documentary series, "From Bankruptcy to Reinvention The City of Stockton California", I wanted to provide our listeners with an update on the work of the community members featured in the documentary series. I decided to host a Townhall Meeting and bring together as many of the voices featured in the radio documentary series to update the community and listeners on their work as well as engage with the community on issues and solutions. Nicholas Hatten,

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00:29:37

The Rose That Grew From Concrete

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/25

In this episode, we feature the voice of Michael Tubbs. We have broken the episode down into two parts. Part one takes place back in the summer of 2016 when I caught up with Michael Tubbs who was at that time the youngest City Council member in Stockton history and one of the youngest elected officials in the United States. Michael was as you heard in Episode 11 from Tama Brisbane working to change Stockton’s history by making history. Michael was making a run to become the youngest and first

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00:57:49

Unedited Episode 12 The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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2019/05/24

In this unedited interview, for episode 12 we feature the voice of Michael Tubbs. The interview was conducted in August of 2016 when Michael Tubbs was running for MayorDive Into More Information on Each Episode, Speakers, Organizations and Resources at our Voices of the Community’s Special Arts & Culture Series Web Landing Page

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00:25:44

Changing its history by making history

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/24

In episode one my associate producer Nick (MaClindon) spoke with Rebekah Fenton about Michael Tubb’s love of the power of the Spoken Word and the metaphor of Stockton’s rise from the ashes of Bankruptcy through Tupac Shakur's monumental poem The Rose That Grew From Concrete. Tama with her husband Aaron founded With Our Words a nonprofit, slam poetry collective that has created safe spaces for young people to express themselves through written and spoken word and provided opportunities for at-risk

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00:13:08

Unedited Episode 11 Changing its history by making...

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/23

In this unedited episode, we feature the voices of Tama Brisbane a self-described hip-hop midwife and longtime friend of Michael Tubbs who appointed her as the City of Stockton’s first Poet Laureate and the voice of Brandon Leake a spoken word poet who grew up in what Brandon calls the ghettos of South StocktonDive Into More Information on Each Episode, Speakers, Organizations and Resources at our Voices of the Community’s Special Arts & Culture Series Web Landing Page

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00:30:06

How do you change a 40+ year long Negative Narrative?

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2019/05/23

Multiple generations of South, East, and downtown Stockton residents have suffered the impacts of the City's policies of economic apartheid and corruption. This, in turn, created the deadly outcomes of abject poverty, crime, institutionalized racism, and the community narrative that residents do not feel like they belong in Stockton and are not welcome in the city in which they live. Through Hector’s work in empowering community members to have both a choice and voice, he identified that there are

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00:30:06

Unedited Episode 10 How do you change a 40+ year long...

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2019/05/22

In this un-edited episode, we feature the voice of Hector Laura who is the co-founder and executive director of the Reinvent South Stockton Coalition as well as the South Stockton Promise Zone. Hector shares his experience in organizing and developing community programs to address the decades of the City’s policies.Dive Into More Information on Each Episode, Speakers, Organizations and Resources at our Voices of the Community’s Special Arts & Culture Series Web Landing Page

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00:31:54

Poverty shortens lives by 20 years

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/22

In this episode, we feature the voices of Barb Alberson, Benita Ortez, as well as Horacio Viramontes along with students from the Franklin High School Spanish Club. The first voice is Barb Alberson, the Senior Deputy Director for Policy and Planning at San Joaquin County Public Health Services who shares her insights into the impact of poverty on health outcomes. The second set of voices are Horacio Viramontes IB Spanish Teacher and the Spanish Club Advisor along with his Franklin High Spanish Club

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00:12:56

Unedited Episode 9 Poverty shortens lives by 20 years

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/21

In this episode we feature the voices of Barb Alberson, Benita Ortez, as well as Horacio Viramontes along with students from the Franklin High School Spanish Club. Dive Into More Information on Each Episode, Speakers, Organizations and Resources at our Voices of the Community’s Special Arts & Culture Series Web Landing Page

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00:29:44

Doing the Work that Dr King and Malcolm X Left Behind...

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/21

The Summer Success Leadership Academy was co-created in 2010 by Stockton natives Ty-Licia Hooker, and Michael Tubbs. The one-week residential program is free to about 50 minority high school students who learn to design and execute community action plans to address problems facing their communities. The Summer Success Leadership Academy is hosted with the University of the Pacific. Like the Phoenix Scholars program we discussed with Rebekah Fenton in episode one, the Summer Success Leadership

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00:36:49

Unedited Episode 8 Doing the Work that Dr King and...

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/20

In this episode, we feature the voice of Anthony Rodriguez who is an 8th grade English and Math educator at Marshall Elementary and works with the Summer Success Leadership Academy in leading the mentor training program. Anthony shares his passion for teaching and empowering youth to understand and embrace the socio-economic construct of Stockton’s economic apartheid and to break out of that setup to write their own life stories.Dive Into More Information on Each Episode, Speakers, Organizations

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00:29:03

Trust your voice and your story

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2019/05/20

As was mentioned by Lange Luntao in Episode Five part of the mission of the community group Reinvent South Stockton Coalition created by then-Councilmember Michael Tubbs is to empower its residents to transform their community through improving, education. A big part of improving the education is through engaging the users of the education system the youth. Our voice in this episode is Jasmine Della -ah-fosse who shares her experience working with Michael Tubbs as well as the Reinvent South

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00:29:27

Our strength is our diversity

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2019/05/19

Stockton was home to the largest community of Filipinos outside of the Philippines and they were segregated to a four-block area called Little Manila in downtown Stockton. In this episode, we feature the voice of Dillon Delvo a second-generation Filipino American and co-founder of Little Manila Rising. Dillion and fellow co-founder the late Dr. Dawn Mabalon formed Little Manila Rising to both preserve the history and reclaim the last remaining buildings of Little Manila. Dillon shares his passion,

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00:27:38

Be the change you want to see

Voices of the Community ·

2019/05/18

Lange Luntao is the Director of the Stockton Scholars and the Executive Director of the Reinvent Stockton Foundation, a charitable organization that aims to expand opportunity and build hope by attracting resources into Stockton and investing in our city's people. A third-generation teacher who was born and raised in Stockton. Lange returned to Stockton in 2012 to work in public service and education - first as the Field Director for the successful campaign to elect Michael Tubbs to the Stockton

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