Pride Perspectives features discussions of various aspects of the rich and vibrant Santa Cruz LGBTQ+ history. Created in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Santa Cruz Pride in 2025, we include conversations with guests about their experiences in being part of this history through stories of local people and events.
Palika Rewilding on Being Human
On Good News Santa Cruz Thursday, May 21, 2020 host Debora Bone talks with Palika Rewilding about “What does it mean to be fully human?” Palika is a nature-based Guide to Soul at Animas Valley Institute in Western Colorado. Here in Santa Cruz, she facilitates growth...
Raquel Holyoak – Mountain Epiphany
Raquel Holyoak has a mountain epiphany.
Jill Cody: Inspiring Bold Citizens
On Talk of the Bay Tuesday, May 19, 2020, Christine Barrington interviews Citizen Advocate, author, and host of KSQD’s Be Bold America, Jill Cody. Jill’s 31-year career in public service has been imbued with a life-long passion for knowledge and a will to inspire...
Sustainability Now! Struggling to Survive: Binational Farmworkers on the Central Coast
Radio Show #19, May 17, 2020, with Dr. Ann Lopez, Founder and Director of the Center for Farmworker Families in Watsonville, California. Lopez is emerita professor at San Jose City College, and holds degrees in biology and a PhD in Environmental Studies from UC Santa...
Karen Warren – Tunesia
Will we have memories again like Karen Warren who experienced the kindness of strangers?
Tiny Flowers: Preserving Gilia tenuiflora
This week on Santa Cruz Naturalist we speak with Brett Bell, Restoration Steward at the UC Santa Cruz Fort Ord Natural Reserve. Listen in as Brett introduces listeners to a rare and tiny flower, called Gilia tenuiflora ssp. arenaria, found in Monterey Bay's coastal...
Summer Opera Festival on KSQD
Monday Night at the Opera KSQD Santa Cruz presents a summer of engaging drama, spectacular voices, and glorious music, every Monday evening 7 to 10 p.m. on KSQD Santa Cruz. Programs contain a brief synopsis of each story as well as incidental information on the...
Social Justice Activism and the Monastic Life
The ultimate goals of Buddhism are liberation and enlightenment, becoming free of suffering through eliminating its causes, karma and mental afflictions. Some Buddhist practitioners and lineages emphasize focus on these transcendent goals, and don’t think there is any...
A local nurse’s radio diary
KSQD host and producer Gail Borkowski asked a local nurse to record a daily audio diary for a week to tell us what it is like to work at two local hospitals during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is Sonia's story.
Dreamwork over the Years with Phoebe Evans
What does dreamwork evolution look like? Tune in and learn about a sequence of dreams over many years that helped our guest learn how to be more authentic and loving. Phoebe Evans is a dream worker certified by the Marin Institute for Projective Dreamwork in 2008....
Your Title Goes Here
AIRS
Every other Sunday at 5pmNEXT SHOW
Sunday, December 28 5:00pm





