Defund the Police Pt. III
Life On The Margins
English - August 14, 2020 22:36 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBNews Commentary News Daily News skyway rainier beach beacon hill seattle columbia city emerald city pnw seattle commentary south end south seattle emerald Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Listen to Ijeoma Oluo talk about the need to Defund the Seattle Police Department : HERE
0:58 - Episode Introduction
1:45 - Interview with Lorena Gonzalez
29:00 - Series Credits
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Lorena Gonzalez Born and raised in Washington's lower Yakima Valley to a Spanish-speaking migrant farmworker family, Councilmember González earned her first paycheck at the age of 8, alongside her parents and five siblings. She relied on scholarships and worked three jobs to attend community college and later Washington State University.
She moved to Seattle in 2002 to attend Seattle University Law School, where she graduated with honors in 2005. Since moving to Seattle, Councilmember González has lived in Capitol Hill, First Hill, Ballard, South Park and White Center. As one of two at-large (citywide) representatives and the first Latinx elected to serve the Seattle City Council, Councilmember currently lives in the West Seattle Junction neighborhood (District 1) with her husband and their dog, Hugo.
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Produced In Partnership With :
Town Hall Seattle (https://townhallseattle.org/)
The South Seattle Emerald (https://southseattleemerald.com/)
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Executive Producer + Host // Marcus Harrison Green
Executive Producer + Host // Enrique Cerna
Additional Production Support Provided By // Hans Anderson & JEFFSCOTTSHAW
Music Provided By // Draze "The Hood Ain't The Same" // http://www.thedrazeexperience.com/about-draze/