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.
Volunteerism in Santa Cruz is alive and well!
On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling speaks with Christina Thurston of the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County. Though Covid-19 has created challenges for fulfilling their mission in some ways,...
Kathleen Miller Creating for Wellbeing
On Talk of the Bay, April 7, 2020, Christine Barrington interviews Kathleen Miller, M.A. about creativity for everyday people. Kathleen uses Wellness Writing and Expressive Art to help people...
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...
Host Bios
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Airs Monday through Friday at 5:00 PM
NEXT SHOW
Thursday, January 23 5:00pm
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.