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bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard

The bigcitysmalltown podcast, hosted by Bob Rivard, is dedicated to telling the stories of San Antonians working to make the city a more sustainable, better educated, equitable and prosperous city. We want San Antonio to become a destination city for talented and creative people, and a city where young people born or raised here want to build their futures here. We embrace diversity, multiculturalism, and every individual’s right to realize their full potential without fear of oppression.Each

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80. Dr. Bryan Gervais and UTSA’s New Center for...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/11/15

This week’s guest is UTSA’s Dr. Bryan Gervais. He is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science & Geography, and he's in the studio because he is the inaugural director of the UTSA Center for Public Opinion Research (CPOR), the new poll launched in advance of the national elections. His areas of specialization are political communication and political psychology. Listen as Dr. Gervais discusses how accurate their polling proved in the recent national election, and what CPOR is

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79. Meredith Walker and the Texas Business Hall of Fame

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/11/08

This week’s guest is Meredith Walker, executive director of the Texas Business Hall of Fame, a position she has held for nearly seven years. The TBHF was founded in 1982 to celebrate the state’s most successful and community-minded business leaders. Bottom line success is not enough for someone to gain entry. Philanthropy, giving back, and community engagement are essential factors in each year’s class of inductees. On November 13th, and the Admiral, NBA Hall of Famer and legendary San Antonio Spur

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78. Live from CityFest: The Future of Downtown

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/11/01

In this very special episode of bigcitysmalltown, we share a panel recorded live in front of an audience at Texas Public Radio for CityFest San Antonio 2024. Host Bob Rivard moderated a panel of city leaders discussing how San Antonio's downtown has navigated the past decade and what's ahead. The panel included Veronica Salazar of UTSA, David Robinson, Jr. of Weston Urban, Trish DeBerry of Centro San Antonio, Andres Andujar of Hemisfair, and San Antonio City Manager Erik Walsh.

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JC Clapsaddle: An American in the Ukraine

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/10/25

This week’s guest is JC Clapsaddle, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and medical administration officer with a background in Pentagon assignments involving human rights and humanitarian efforts. Listen as JC discusses his multiple missions to aid Ukraine in its defense against Valdimir Putin and Russia, whose forces invaded Ukraine in 2022, eight years after that country’s invasion and occupation of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine.

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76. Jessica Conrad on San Antonio's Housing Market

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/10/18

This week’s guest is Jessica Conrad, a San Antonio realtor, Air Force veteran, and now, the emcee of the semi-annual PechaKucha creative presentations, the latest edition of which was recently staged at the Carver Cultural Center. Listen as Jessica discusses how she works to help first-time home buyers and others find their dream homes in San Antonio.

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75. Grant Pinkerton Talks BBQ

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/10/11

This week’s guest is Grant Pinkerton, the man, the chef, the impresario behind Pinkerton’s BBQ, located right in the heart of downtown San Antonio on Legacy Park across from Frost Tower. Listen as Grant discusses his choice to expand to San Antonio instead of Austin, how he got started in BBQ, and more.

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74. Lisa Campos: Leading UTSA Sports

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/10/04

This week’s guest is Dr. Lisa Campos, the Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics and Athletic Director, at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a position she has held since Nov. 17, 2017. Listen as she discusses the extraordinary growth of UTSA Athletics since 2017 and looks forward to what's ahead.

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73. Monika Maeckle + Ashley Bird: 9th Annual Monarch...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/09/27

This week’s guests are part of the bigcitysmalltown family. First, Monika Maeckle, founder of the San Antonio Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival, and the author of the newly released book, “The Monarch Butterfly Migration, Its Rise and Fall,” published in August by the University of Oklahoma Press; and Ashley Bird, who now serves as the festival’s director in its 9th year and also is the founder of Blooming with Birdie, which connects children to nature by creating empathy-driven, immersive

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72. Ray Cantu: AI-Simulated Training at SIMMIE

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/09/20

This week’s guest is Ray Cantu, founder of a company called SIMMIE that until recently was known as ColdCALR. By either name Cantu, the consummate salesman, says his company is revolutionizing the world of sales with what he describes as an “AI-powered platform designed to train sales professionals faster, smarter, and more effectively.”

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71. Trish DeBerry: The Future of Downtown San Antonio...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/09/13

This week we welcome a returning guest: Trish DeBerry, CEO and president of Centro San Antonio, the nonprofit organization dedicated to building and maintaining a better downtown for locals, businesses and visitors. Trish was a bigcitysmalltown guest last December, and in this episode she offers an update on exciting projects on the drawing board, including the relocation of the San Antonio Missions and the San Antonio Spurs to new downtown venues. She also talks about closing Houston Street to

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70. Michael Blair + Jose Herrera: NukuDo's Paid...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/09/06

Have you heard of NukuDo, the cybersecurity training program located at Geekdom? Today’s guest is Michael Blair, an entrepreneur and NukuDo’s Managing Director. NukuDo pays its enrolled students $4,000 a month during their half year or so of training. Blair is joined by Jose Herrera, a member of NukuDo's first cohort. Listen as we discuss how NukuDo came to be, and how their training program is sourcing exciting new talent to enter the cybersecurity workforce in San Antonio and beyond.

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69. PechaKucha San Antonio with Vicki Yuan and Libby...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/08/23

This week’s guests are Vicki Yuan, an architect with Lake/Flato, and Libby Morris, a leader in San Antonio’s design community and the principal of Morris Design. Vicki and Libby are with us to talk about their roles as leading organizers of PechaKucha San Antonio, the local chapter of a global entertainment and education stage production that was started by two Tokyo-based architects in 2003. The word "PechaKucha" is Japanese for "chit-chat" or "the sound of conversation". The next installment will

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68. Dawn White-Fosdick: Christian Assistance...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/08/09

This week’s guest is Dawn White-Fosdick, the longtime president and CEO of Christian Assistance Ministry, widely known as CAM, which serves both the city's homeless as well as families who have housing but are experiencing crisis in their lives. For the month of August, the Wade Richmond Foundation is matching every dollar raised up to $100,000, so now is a great time to learn how you can help support the 70K members of our community served annually by CAM or learn how to access their services

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67. Krissy Salinas on Let's Go Texas

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/08/02

This week’s guest is Krissy Salinas, the director of Let’s Go Texas, a nonprofit that helps people with disabilities in South Texas and the San Antonio metro area find gainful employment. Let’s Go Texas partners with the Texas Workforce Vocational Programs, and also has launched innovative programs in area public high schools where Krissy and her team work with students with disabilities to prepare them for the workplace, a service that has only grown in importance after the COVID-19 pandemic. If

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66. Napthali Bryant + Raylynn Hampton: United Way's...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/07/26

This week’s guests are Naphtali Bryant, the Childcare Scholarship Coordinator at United Way of San Antonio, and Raylynn Hampton, a United Way Scholarship recipient. Raylynn is a 27-year-old student pursuing an online undergraduate degree in education at Southern New Hampshire University with the goal of becoming a teacher and starting her own nonprofit. While she pursues that degree, she is working fulltime as an administrative assistant to the principal at Oak Meadow Elementary School in the

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65. Lea Rosenauer: Strong, Smart and Bold at Girls, Inc.

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/07/19

This week’s guest is Lea Rosenauer, president and CEO of Girls Inc. of San Antonio, an affiliate of the national Girls Incorporated organization that was established locally 20 years ago this November. Its mission is to inspire all girls ages 6-18 to be strong, smart, and bold, and to overcome barriers that prohibit them from achieving their personal, educational, and career goals.

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64. Kathy Sosa and Antonio Arelle Barquet: El Otro...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/07/12

This week’s guests are San Antonio artist Kathy Sosa and Antonio Arelle Barquet, the director of the Museum of Art in Queretaro, a city of more than 1 million people in Central Mexico and a UNESCO World Heritage site celebrated for its Historic Monument Zone. Kathy Sosa, together with her husband and fellow artist Lionel Sosa, have embarked on an exciting project that will bring new attention in Mexico to many of San Antonio’s artists who trace their heritage to Mexico, and introduce new generations

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63. George Hernandez and Building Bexar County's...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/06/28

This week’s guest is George Hernandez, who retires as the longtime CEO of the University Health System, officially known as the Bexar County Hospital District, the only locally owned hospital and outpatient clinic network. Hernandez has led the district for 19 years, a period time that saw remarkable growth in both facilities and services beyond the south Texas Medical Center.

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62. From Wounded Warrior to Artist & Author: The...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/06/21

This week's guest is Mario Lopez, a wounded warrior who served deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan. He survived critical injuries from a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, which brought him to The Burn Center at the San Antonio Military Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston. After years of surgeries and recuperation, Mario has gone on to write a book about his experiences, and he is a self-taught artist whose work now hangs at the very military installation here where he was treated.

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61. Corazón Ministries: Downtown Nonprofit Making a...

bigcitysmalltown with Bob Rivard ·

2024/06/14

This week’s guests are Erika Borrego, the CEO of Corazón Ministries, and her colleague Brittney Ackerson, the Day Center Director and recovering addict who experienced homelessness in her own life before finding her way back to good health and a purpose-driven life. Their work serving the hardcore homeless population in San Antonio is transforming lives. Listener discretion is advised; this episode discusses substance abuse and rape.

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