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.
Claire Braz-Valentine shares her experiences teaching poetry and theater inside California’s prisons
Claire Braz-Valentine is a widely published poet and journalist. Her plays have opened in Santa Cruz and have been produced Off Broadway in New York and in many foreign countries. She has been a...
Cemre Gonen and Sam Bilal – Youth vs. Apocalypse and Youth Climate Strike
Cemre (GEM-ray) Gonen is 18 years old and a freshman at UC Berkeley. She is in the lead circle of Youth vs Apocalypse - a youth environmental justice organization that focuses on amplifying the...
The Vacancy Report: What a new study in LA reveals about the lack of affordable housing
Alex Ferrer is co-author of The Vacancy Report (along with Terra Graziani and Jacob Woocher). Alex is a housing researcher and a graduate student in urban planning at UCLA. His work supports tenant...
Talk of the Bay: Health Equity Grants Support our Community through a Pandemic
Mimi Hall, Director of the County Health Services Agency, joins Talk of the Bay to speak about public health during a pandemic. Recently County Health awarded $619,900 in health equity grants to 20...
Host Bios
[Coming soon]
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.