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
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....