Talk of the Bay
Talk of the Bay is committed to covering political, social, and cultural topics from around the Monterey Bay. We focus on current events and people making news locally (from the central coast to Sacramento). We also consider national and international issues, their impact on the central coast, and local responses. We tackle perennial topics like housing, homelessness, transportation, education, and more from a new angle.
UC Lecturers May Strike
In this interview, we hear from Vice-President of UC-AFT, the union representing all UC lecturers, about stalled contract negotiations and frustrations over bargaining practices that may lead to a...
Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture
Dr. Ann Lopez, founder of the Center for Farmworker Families, is no stranger to the effects of pesticides. In her work with migrant farmworker families, she sees children with high cancer rates and...
United Against Hate Week takes off in Santa Cruz
Dr. Marcelle E. DuPraw (“Marci”) is a facilitator and mediator specializing in cross-cultural environmental challenges, landscape-scale collaboration, and collaborative capacity-building. She holds...
UCSC adds new Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department
On Talk of the Bay, join host Suki Wessling in a conversation with UCSC Professor Christine Hong, chair of the new Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department. Dr. Hong discusses the history of...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Monday, December 23 6:00am
HOSTED BY
Rachel Anne Goodman
Since 1980, Rachel has hosted radio shows on public stations around the U.S. where she interviewed many amazing figures. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, A Labor of Love: Midwifery in the South, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. Ms. Goodman has a Peabody award for her work on The DNA Files for NPR. She currently teaches at Cabrillo College
in Aptos and at UC Santa Cruz.