Podcast Episodes

How One Woman’s Search for Her Homeless Mother Became a Mission to Help Others

Robin Burton started out trying to find her mom. But the search morphed into something else: a mission to help other people who are homeless and miss…

6 years, 10 months ago

Do You Really Want to Know? One Man’s Search for Family From Jonestown and Beyond

Forty-one years ago this week, more than 900 people died in a mass suicide in Jonestown, a remote settlement in South America. This documentary follo…

6 years, 10 months ago

What Is the California Dream, and Is it Still Alive?

Prison-to-College Pipeline, Prop 13’s Impact on the CA Dream, Letter to My CA Dreamer, a Dream Shaped By Water

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6 years, 10 months ago

Living Through Wildfire and Facing a New Normal

A Mind Scarred by Wildfire, Survivors Struggle to Find Housing, Radio Station Relays Fire Info in Indigenous Languages

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6 years, 10 months ago

The Thin Place

A paramedic and ER nurse from Northern California may himself be a conduit between the living and the dead.

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6 years, 10 months ago

A ‘Nest’ for Migrant Kids at the Border – and an Unusual High School Reunion

Tijuana’s First Early Childhood Education Center…Affiliated With a Migrant Shelter, Fictional Podcast ‘Moonface’ Explores Being Korean and Queer, Alu…

6 years, 11 months ago

Special Ed for California’s Black Students Was Supposed to Be Fixed by This Landmark Case. It Wasn’t

A landmark ruling in 1977 changed special education for black students in California. But many educators, black parents and advocates say plenty rema…

6 years, 11 months ago

These Five People Challenge the Notion of Blindness as a Deficit

The world of mollusk, a master in tinkering, guitarist Ioana Gandrabur, an architect who listens to buildings and designing how products sound.

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6 years, 11 months ago

Blind Beekeeper Relies on Sound to Keep Her Hives Happy

It has been almost 30 years since Aerial Gilbert lost her sight. In that time she’s relearned just about everything she used to do before going blind…

6 years, 11 months ago

How Heat Threatens California’s Most Vulnerable

Climate change is making it hotter everywhere in California. And heat can be a sneaky threat to our health and safety. It’s getting more dangerous, a…

7 years ago