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.
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County: Resiliency through Compassion and Strategic Action
On Talk of the Bay, Tuesday July 21, 2020 Christine Barrington interviews Susan True, CEO of Community Foundation Santa Cruz County Community foundations are grantmaking public charities that are...
Curtis Reliford: A Call to Serve
Curtis Reliford is a Santa Cruz-based philanthropist and is on a personal quest to bring people together. In this interview, he talks about how Hurricane Katrina galvanized him from feeling beaten...
Lela Brown shares her experiences in Outdoor Education – a model for capable and inspired children
Lela Brown runs a nature immersion outdoor program for children ages 5-12 in Portland, Oregon. She has a long background in nature education, including teaching workshops in wilderness survival and...
What it’s like to be Black in Santa Cruz – experiences of local residents
In the wake of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, citizens have taken to the streets all over the nation, and the world, to protest institutionalized racism and police...
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.