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Dr. Patrick Lopez-Aguado, Assistant Professor of Sociology from Santa Clara University, is the author of Stick Together and Come Back Home: Racial Sorting and the Spillover of Carceral Identity (2018, UC Press). He discusses some of the changes to the criminal justice system in California and about his upcoming research in this subject area.

Headlines: Dry farming, Self-driving cars, LA gas power plants shut, CA Green New Deal, Atmospheric River soaks California Stories: Central Valley Environmental Justice issues, North Coast Rail Trail EIR finalized More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

Dr. T. Christopher Aplin is an independent scholar and ethnomusicologist currently working with the Fort Sill Apache Tribe to secure grant funding to preserve their recorded cultural heritage. Dr. Aplin discusses his book in progress about the music of the Apache prisoners of war taken with Geronimo in 1886 and about the indigenous influence on popular music

DJ Maladroit sits down with Anna Maria from City on a Hill Press. They talk astrology, Kanye, and falling in love with strangers.   Created by Dustin Lennin Choto

Dr. Melissa Guzman-Garcia, Assistant Professor of Latino/a Studies at San Francisco State University, discusses being a women of color/Latina faculty member in academia, about mentoring, and about her research on migration and religion.

Headlines: Mauna Kea Protection, Government Shutdown Impact on Food Assistance, Mount Tamalpais Environmental Takeover, Golf Ball Ocean Impacts, Anchovy Conservation, Santa Cruz Homeless Camp, Santa Cruz Bike Commuting Stories: Santa Cruz Waste Management, The Natural History of Where You Live pt. 2 More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

DJ Maladroit is joined by Erika Staud of On The Spot. They discuss SOPHIE, music production, and food.   Created by Dustin Lennin Choto

Headlines: Groups vow to fight Rollback of Clean Water Protections  Stories: 2018 Wildfire Season, UN Climate Summit; Search and Rescue at the Camp wildfire in Butte County. More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

Dan Woo dissects the heartless and brainless arguments of those in the market-rate theologian class. To those who say, 'can't afford it? GET OUT!" Dan Woo appreciates your opinion...but...

DJ Maladroit is joined by Aadam Mohammad from On the Spot to talk about the Sonic the Hedgehog video games.   Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto

On this episode of Half Hour Lunch Break, student artist Lizzy Choi talks favorite Smash Bros. characters, their art process, and Lust vs. Love.  Follow Lizzy on IG: @queeryellowtears Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto

Originally aired on Transformation Highway on August 24, 2017, this interview with Jackie Sue Powell, certified yoga instructor in Santa Cruz, California is about global yoga, social justice and well-being. Jackie discussed her commitment to make yoga accessible, both in terms of cost and imagining yoga practices outside the studio. She spoke about her life-changing experiences teaching and learning yoga around the world, including Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Palestine. We also talked about the role yoga could play in improving the well-being of social justice activists.

For this first episode of Half Hour Lunch Break, DJ Maladroit interviews City on a Hill Press's Co-Editor-in-Chief Laretta Johnson. They talk about eggs, corn, and bad first dates.  Half Hour Lunch Break is a podcast where UCSC students come on and talk about whatever is on our DJ's mind. Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto

An interview with UC Santa Cruz Professor Micah Parks of Literature about her new book True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape (2018, Outpost 19). We discussed her unique upbringing living in a log cabin on a commune and how that sparked her creativity and love of reading and about the writing of her latest book.

An interview with Dr. Theresa Montaño, Vice-President of the California Teachers Association (CTA) about the unprecedented Los Angeles Unified School District strike. Dr. Montaño has an extensive teaching career at all levels of education in California public schools. Now a professor of Chicana/Chicano Studies with an emphasis in education at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Dr. Montaño research interests include: teacher activism; Chicana/o and Latino/a educational equity; critical multicultural education; and Bilingual/ELL education. Dr. Montaño believes that these are crucial times for public education and for CTA.

Monterey Peninsula Water Management District is set to buy out private water company California American Water (Cal-Am). District General Manager Dave Stoldt breaks down the details of his agency's task for listeners with Dan Woo.

DJ Maladroit sits down with video essayist Jack Saint / LackingSaint. They discuss Jack's inspirations, the current socio-political atmosphere, and Mexican food.   Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto

This time Dj Maladroit is joined by Ashley of the YouTube channel "Trash Theory." They discuss Weezer, Lil Uzi Vert, favorite Simpsons character and more.   Created by: Dustin Lennin Choto

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.

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).