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An interview with Karla Vasquez, founder of SalviSoul, a cookbook project documenting the stories of Salvadoran women, their recipes and Salvadoran food ways. Karla is a food justice advocate, a food historian and a proponent for healthy food accessibility in low-income communities. 

Headlines: Poetry reading in Chadwick Garden; golf ball pollution art Story: The Nature Corps Volunteer Weekend in Big Sur More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

**Please note this interview covers a sensitive topic and may not be suitable for all listeners.** Since October 2018, KZSC and the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz have been teaching journalism classes in Watsonville, California at the Digital NEST. This special episode is co-produced by three Watsonville High School students from the class: Nance Rodriguez, Dafne Martinez, and Casey Martinez. Their audio-video project included an important interview with Jaqueline Mendoza, a local sexual assault survivor. This interview took place on May 9, 2019 on the rooftop of the Digital NEST.

Making the Chinese Mexican author tills the historical context of nationalism...exploring discrimination both aimed at, and stemming from, Mexico over the past century.

Dr. Rebecca Hernandez (Mexican-American and Mescalero Apache) is the Director of the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) at UC Santa Cruz and Rennea Howell (member of the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma) is an AIRC student intern. They discuss the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women and their collective efforts to raise awareness on this serious issue.

Alberto Ledesma, an Assistant Dean for Diversity at U.C. Berkeley, was brought undocumented to Oakland, California at eight years old. He graduated U.C. Berkeley three times over and has held faculty positions at Cal State University, Monterey Bay, and U.C. Berkeley. In this interview, he discusses his book Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life (The Ohio State University Press, 2017).

Sandra Soto is an Associate Professor or Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona (UofA). She discusses the charges brought against three UofA students for protesting a campus presentation on March 19, 2019 by armed Border Patrol agents. The students are known as #TheArizona3.

Slug Support rep Mariah Lyons tells Dan Woo and DJ Peach where to find help surviving as a student. Also UPTE union rep Bill Spencer talks UC technical worker strike status. Also, UC election measure info!

The Ace of Cups may not have been the first all-female rock and roll band, but they were the one that mattered within that bizarre wrinkle in time that constituted late 1960s San Francisco.  The Ace of Cups are in Santa Cruz on Friday May 17th, 2019 at the Rio Theatre   

Labor rights attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan talks about ensuring fair business practices in the gig economy as well as older economic sectors, her $20 million settlement victory from Uber, and a possible run for senate in Mass.

Daniel sat down with the current UCSC SUA Vice President of External Affairs, Davon Thomas, to talk about the work he does in his position and the statewide scope it encompasses. Topics discussed include tuition hikes, state lobbying, minority representation, undocumented aid, and much more. Thanks for tuning in!

This week, Oiko explores environmental impacts of agriculture and what we can do to lessen our carbon footprint by changing our diet. Ronald Donkenvoort, farming for over thirty years, gives us a glimpse how farming has changed over time, while Rebecca King talks about the unique challenges of being a sheep dairy in a changing climate. Anthony Tomaso, a beekeeper, tells us the health benefits of local honey. Ian O'Hollaren takes us underwater to taste seaweed, nutritionally dense and great for the environment. Our second segment talks with Greg Gilbert, plant pathologist, about the deadly plant disease Sudden Oak Death and the havoc it's wreaking on Californian forests. 

Listen to a special episode of Oiko! Usually a biology show this week we expanded to include interviews with astronomers, psychologists, and historians as part of the Graduate Research Symposium held this weekend. New celestial bodies on the outskirts of our solar system, machine learning, and the environmental policy of China in the 1950s and much more included in this episode! Follow DJ Gina on Instagram for more content @881oiko

Nicknamed the "Reef Sentinel" for his multidisciplinary approach to coral reef studies, Dr. Terry Hughes' research on bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef earned him a spot on Nature Journal's top ten people who matter in 2016. He discusses the future health of the world's reefs, economic security of nations that depend on the reef, and his latest research methods.

Headlines: Opioid deaths down in Santa Cruz; Poacher sentenced; Microplastic pollution spreads Stories:  UC’s Cool Campus Challenge update, Profile of a young naturalist, Luba Kaplanskya, intern with the Ken Norris Center for Natural History More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

Headlines: Cool Campus Challenge , Ag series, Sea levels threaten the Embarcadero, 2020 Census Stories: Ken Norris Center for Natural History More at newsfromoutdoors.bandcamp.com

Isaí Ambrosio is the Director of the Davenport Resource Services Center and the inaugural Activist-in-Residence for UC Santa Cruz/Research Center for the Americas. We discussed his work in Davenport, California, his challenges in obtaining his education while learning English, and his plans as the activist-in-residence.

Dr. Safiya Noble, Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies, and a visiting faculty member to the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communication, is the author of the best-selling book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press, 2018). Her academic research focuses on the design of digital media platforms on the internet and their impact on society.  

An interview with Nina Simon, outgoing director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) and incoming CEO for Of By For All. We discuss rebuilding of the MAH to reach an unprecedented level of financial stability, what she's learned about her own leadership style, about realizing one's own career potential, and about the Of By For All movement.

Daniel sat down with CUIP intern for the Ken Norris Center, Luba Kaplanskaya, to talk about the center's work, natural history more broadly, and Luba's personal associations with the subject.