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Storied: San Francisco

Dec 3, 2024

Allegra Madsen has a Polaroid photo of her birth.

In this episode, meet and get to know Allegra. Today, she's the executive director of Frameline film fest, the biggest LGBTQIA+ movie event in the world. She might disagree, but Allegra is a big deal.

(Quick side note: As we kicked off our recording, Allegra expertly...


Nov 21, 2024

Jacob Rosenberg had a front-row seat to some rad SF/Bay Area history.

In this bonus episode, the filmmaker/storyteller shares some of that history, especially as it relates to his upcoming book, Right Before My Eyes. Jacob was born and raised in Palo Alto. He grew up in the Seventies and Eighties. His parents moved...


Nov 19, 2024

In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1, with Nicole's move to New York. She didn't necessarily have a plan for this cross-country relocation, but she dove in head-first nonetheless.
 
Nicole of course turned to Craigslist to help her find a roommate. But she also hopped on FB Marketplace, which is where she...


Nov 12, 2024

​Nicole Salaver is the kind of person I wish I had met long before that happened.

In this episode, meet Nicole. She's the program manager at Balay Kreative these days. But her San Francisco roots go way, way back.

Her maternal grandfather came to the US in the 1920s. He was one of the first Filipinos to own...


Oct 29, 2024

In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1.

 

Jackie considers it an honor to have worked for Lateefah Simon, who's running for Congress in the East Bay for the seat currently held by Barbara Lee. Jackie was tasked with writing memos, and she took that job and ran with it, digging deeply into the weeds of policy....