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....
Immigration Legal Services
Randa Solick talked with Ariadna Renteria -Torres, a local immigration attorney. Ariadna provides Immigration Legal Services to the Central Coast. They discussed many current problems immigrants face, and that a true democracy preserves human rights for everyone.
Queer Youth Leadership Awards Nominees
The Queer Youth Leadership Awards recognizes queer youth across Santa Cruz County for being leaders within their community. Being a leader encompasses many attributes and spans across all disciplines and activities. If you know an out LGBTIQ youth who is making a...
Local startup shifts from fuel to masks
(Photo by LiPo Ching) In this piece, producer Ashleigh Papp explores the conversion of an alternative fuel startup company into a mask-making factory. I'm Ashleigh Papp for KSQD with a story about being flexible during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's five o'clock...
Dennis Spear – Gold Old Days
More than ten years ago, Dennis Spear found benefits from the Great Depression and they still might be true today.
Colleen Murphy – Showing Up
Colleen Murphy ponders about what it takes to show up in her parenting role during and after COVID.
The Film Gang Review: Donnie Darko (2001)
Every so often a really good movie will undeservedly fail at the box office. Bad timing, the marketing challenges of outside-the-box storytelling, or even its title can undermine theatrical success. But films that go on to develop a large and enthusiastic fan...
Zenith Virago Deathwalker
On Talk of the Bay Tuesday, May 14, 2020, Christine Barrington interviews Zenith Virago. Zenith believes everyone has the inherent capacity to deal with death, dying, and loss well. With Covid-19 we are thinking about death with much more awareness. At this time of...
