Dec. 6th: POC communities & Re-framing Sustainability
An interview with Carol Garcia, Program Coordinator of UCSC’s People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) about creating an inclusive sustainability movement and the necessity for having students of color in leadership roles. As the granddaughter of migrant workers, we also addressed the health issues facing farmworkers in the Salinas area.

Dec. 13th: Encouraging Creativity and Emerging Artists in Watsonville
An interview with Gabriel Medina, Assistant Program Director and Digital Arts and Technology Manager at Digital NEST (Nurturing Entrepreneurial Skills with Technology), as well as an Adjunct Professor in Digital Media at Cabrillo College about nurturing creativity and artistry in Watsonville, the pros/cons of exposing young people early to technology, and about his upbringing in Watsonville.

Dec. 20, 2018: Women’s Testimonios as Resistance in Argentina
An interview with Dr. Barbara Sutton, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department from the University at Albany and author of Surviving State Terror: Women’s Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina (New York University Press, 2018).

Dec. 27, 2018: Mobility Rules and Teenage Poverty in the United States
Dr. Ranita Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas discusses her book, The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City (University of California Press, 2017). Ray’s book challenges common views that targeting “risk behaviors” among youth such as drugs, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood is key to breaking the cycle of poverty. Dr. Ray is an ethnographer specializing in women of color feminisms, children and youth, urban inequalities, and education and policing.