SGV Connect
184 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSGV Connect is Streetsblog Los Angeles' podcast that explores the people, places, projects and events that make up the changing face of transportation in the San Gabriel Valley. SGV Connect is hosted by Damien Newton and Kris Fortin. This feed also hosts SGV Connect's predecessor podcast, #DamienTalks.
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SGV Connect 126: Melissa Mora Hidalgo and Jonah Kanner
June 27, 2024 22:22 - 50 minutes - 37.3 MBThis week's SGV Connect returns to our regular formula with a pair of interviews by Damien Newton and Chris Greenspon. First, Chris interviews Melissa Mora Hidalgo, a queer entertainment writer living in Whittier. The interview goes back and forth between fun and serious, as the two discuss both her work and the performative allyship that occurs during Pride month. In short, Hidalgo would prefer a city that works to create safe environments for all its residents to one that puts up rainbow...
SGV Connect 125: A Sweatshop Documentary Comic Strip
June 14, 2024 15:42 - 16 minutes - 37.9 MBThis week Chris brings us a special feature interview with artist Isabel Pan. Pan is the artist in residence at C.A.S.A Zamora in El Monte. Her project has been a documentary-style, slice of life comic strip depicting the impact of sweatshop labor and refugee crises on the children of immigrants in the San Gabriel Valley. Pan’s subject is the son of a sweat shop worker, Denny. His parents came to El Monte in the late 70’s, fleeing the Vietnam War. They endured the loss of family en route ...
SGV Connect 124: Reclaimers and Rick Cole
May 22, 2024 20:33 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBThis week’s SGV Connect continues our theme of focusing in on various areas of the SGV for our podcast episodes by looking at the Greater Pasadena area. First, Damien and Chris traveled to El Sereno to meet with some of the Reclaimers, unhoused residents of El Sereno who moved into Caltrans owned properties during the pandemic. Benito, Sandra and Fanny return to SGV Connect (their first appearance can be found here) to advocate for affordable housing and community spaces, discuss the ong...
SGV Connect 123: The Upcoming Election in Alhambra CD4
May 10, 2024 18:28 - 44 minutes - 34.2 MBThis week's SGV Connect is focusing on the election to replace Councilmember and Vice-Mayor Sasha Renée Pérez of Alhambra. Pérez has given up her seat to run for the State Senate. Chris interviews Nicolas Kiet Quach, the president of the Alhambra Library Board of Trustees. While only 18, Kiet Quach is no newcomer to politics having worked for and with Pérez. If you choose, you can read a transcript of the interview, here. Next, Damien talks to Je-Show Yang, a community activist ...
SGV Connect 122: Glendora
February 27, 2024 22:13 - 31 minutes - 21.2 MBWe continue our tour through the San Gabriel Valley with an episode focused on the City of Glendora, known as the Heart of the Foothills. It might surprise you if you're not familiar with what's going on at this small suburban community, but Glendora is working hard to build out a bike network, calm traffic on its streets, build up a downtown in its 'village' area and continue to plan for the coming A Line (Gold Line) Station. Our first interview is with Steve Mateer, who is responsible fo...
SGV Connect 121, El Monte Region: David Diaz and Pedro Gonzalez
February 18, 2024 23:58 - 28 minutes - 22.2 MBWelcome to the first SGV Connect podcast of 2024! We start our new year with the first in a new series that focuses on different regions and communities in the San Gabriel Valley and examines both the state of their mobility projects and cultural and community projects. This week, both interviews were completed by Chris Greenspon. The first is with David Diaz, the executive director of Active SGV, where they discuss several projects going on in the area: a multimodal projects coming so...
SGV Connect Special Edition : Happy Anniversary, Foothill Transit
December 12, 2023 00:04 - 15 minutes - 34.4 MBLast Friday, Foothill Transit celebrated its 35th anniversary with a party in the parking lot of its West Covina headquarters. Joe Linton and Chris Greenspon were among those on-hand and they had a chance to catch up with a handful of people that helped shape Foothill Transit's past and will guide the agency into the future. Those short interviews are included in this podcast and include: Congressmember Judy Chu Foothill Transit Executive Director Doran Barnes Former Duarte Mayor John ...
Special Edition : Jeanie Ward-Waller
November 22, 2023 19:23 - 23 minutes - 16.7 MBJeanie Ward-Waller is not a household name in California, but until recently she may have had the most important job in the state as far as Streetsblog readers are concerned. Ward-Waller served as the Deputy Director of Planning and Multimodal Programs at Caltrans, where she not only oversaw many of the great programs that we regularly highlighted at Streetsblog; but also served as the internal whistleblower to make certain the agency was working to meet its own climate and equity goals. ...
SGV Connect 120: Basking in the Glow of ArroyoFest
November 03, 2023 16:47 - 26 minutes - 61.6 MBThis week's SGV Connect podcast is a special episode where the Streetsblog San Gabriel Valley team, Chris Greenspon, Joe Linton and Damien Newton, sit down and discuss the great success that was ArroyoFest 2023. All three were at the event but experienced it differently with Linton and his family biking the route, Newton completing the "Run the 110" 10k race and Greenspon walking along the 110 later in the morning. Of course, this is Streetsblog so we also discuss what the success of the e...
SGV Connect 119: GoSGV and Carribean Fragoza's Scary Bike Crash
October 24, 2023 19:07 - 40 minutes - 30.8 MBThis week’s SGV Connect Podcast looks backward at the first year of the GoSGV Bike Share program and looks forward to Halloween and ArroyoFest. First, we speak with Jose Jimenez, the education director for Active SGV about the GoSGV’s first year, celebrated earlier this month. There are over 100 bikes being rented monthly at the moment and over 400 people took part in the program in its first year. There will be a demonstration zone for the rental e-bikes at ArroyoFest this Sunday near the...
SGV Connect 117: Arroyofest
October 05, 2023 18:37 - 34 minutes - 79 MBThis week's SGV Connect breaks our regular mold as Streetsblog L.A. editor Joe Linton conducts both interviews on the past and future of ArroyoFest which returns at the end of this month, on Sunday October 29th when a portion of the I-110 will be closed to cars and open to other uses in the morning. First, Linton interviews Robert Gottlieb and Marcus Renner some of the leaders that brought Southern California the first ArroyoFest in 2003. Seven years before the first CicLAvia, ArroyoFest c...
SGV Connect 117: Councilwoman Adele Andrade Stadler and Steve Farley
September 26, 2023 20:16 - 33 minutes - 25.9 MBThis week's SGV Connect features a pair of interviews that will change and improve the lives of residents of the San Gabriel Valley. First, we talk with Alhambra Councilmember Adele Andrade-Stadler. Andrade-Stadler is the winner of this year's Elected Official of the Year award given by ActiveSGV at their Noche de las Luminarias. You can read more about her award and her relationship with ActiveSGV at their ActiveBlog. At the end of the interview, we discuss the upcoming Sustainability...
SGV Connect 116: Strategic Parking Plan and Safe Parking in Pasadena
August 29, 2023 21:11 - 48 minutes - 34.9 MBThis week's SGV Connect focuses on two different parking programs in Pasadena. As the city closes in on approving its Strategic Parking Plan, we welcome retired UCLA economics professor and parking pricing guru Donald Shoup. Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking which is still considered essential reading for urban planners decades after its original publication. He was also involved when Pasadena first considered variable parking prices for its Playhouse District. As you can imagine, he...
SGV Connect 115: Connie Tamkin and the SGV Community Land Trust
July 24, 2023 16:11 - 41 minutes - 94.3 MBThis week’s SGV Connect Podcast is the second part of a two part series on housing and tenants issues in the San Gabriel Valley and features Connie Tamkin, the president of the San Gabriel Valley Community Land Trust. If you missed part one of the series with Allison Henry, one of the leaders of the San Gabriel Valley Tenants Council, you can find the audio and transcript here. As with the first podcast, Damien and Chris were on-site for the interview, which covered the history of the new...
SGV Connect 114: Allison Henry and the SGV Tenants Council
July 17, 2023 17:52 - 22 minutes - 52 MBThis week’s podcast is the first in a two-podcast mini-series looking at housing issues in the San Gabriel Valley. In this podcast, Damien and Chris talk to Allison Henry, an SGV housing justice organizer with LA Forward and co-founder of the San Gabriel Valley Tenants Alliance. In the podcast, we discuss the recent and long-term history of the battle for housing justice in the SGV and how local politics can lead to very different policies in cities that are just next to each other. While ...
SGV Connect 113 : The Regional Connector Opens and Construction Finnishes on the Gold Line
June 22, 2023 20:51 - 27 minutes - 14.2 MBOn Saturday, the Gold Line Foothill Construction Authority is hosting a ceremony to commemorate the completion of the light rail track system for the 9.1-mile, four-station Foothill Gold Line light rail project from Glendora to Pomona. The ceremony is taking place this Saturday, June 24, 2023, at 9:30 a.m., at the D Street railroad crossing (north of Arrow Highway) in the city of La Verne. During the event, the last of 230,630 rail clips will be driven into place (rail clips permanently at...
SGV Connect 112 : Nathan Allen and Carlos Morales
June 15, 2023 21:48 - 50 minutes - 42.8 MBIn our first interview this week, Chris Greenspon interviews Nathan Allen, the owner of Underdog Bookstore in downtown Monrovia. In Nathan's own words, "Underdog Bookstore, targets specifically books by and about authors of color, as well as LGBT authors, who we consider underdogs, as well as local vendors." Allen explains the need to create safe spaces for youth, especially people of color and LGBTQ+, and provides an overview of life underdogs throughout the SGV. To read a transcript of t...
SGV Connect 111: Putting the Reclaiming Movement Into a Larger Context
June 01, 2023 20:41 - 39 minutes - 23 MBThis week’s SGV Connect is the second in our “Reclaimers” series, focusing on the efforts of a group of formerly homeless activists in the El Sereno to be housed in formerly unoccupied homes owned by Caltrans. The first interview featured six Reclaimers who shared their personal stories on how they fell into homelessness, strived to be rehoused, and then life as a Reclaimer. The stories are powerful and raw. You can hear the podcast here, and read the transcript here. Today’s podcast i...
SGV Connect 110 : The Reclaimers
May 04, 2023 16:18 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBWe are Reclaimers because we have to because of desperation. - Benito, one of the Reclaimers living in El Sereno. SGV Connect is sponsored by Foothill Transit. Foothill Transit was not consulted about the content of this podcast and the views expressed are those of the participants and interviewer and may or may not be representative of the views of Foothill Transit, its board, or its staff. A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to interview four of the El Sereno Caltrans Home Reclaimers...
SGV Connect 109: Rick Cole and Norma Quinones
April 06, 2023 17:31 - 35 minutes - 23.2 MBThis week's SGV Connect features a pair of interviews with former Pasadena Mayor Rick Cole and San Gabriel Valley Conservation Corps (SGVCC). Director Norma Quinones. In our first interview, Damien talks with Cole ostensibly about the dozen opinion pieces Cole has written in 2023 about how Pasadena can grow as a city in the future. In the interview Cole laments how Pasadena has changed in the two decades since he was mayor and hopes the city will recommit itself to its progressive routes i...
SV Connect 108: Senate Candidate Sasha Renée Pérez
March 15, 2023 18:59 - 20 minutes - 16.3 MBDamien Newton and Chris Greenspon catch up with Alhambra Councilmember and State Senate candidate Sasha Renée Pérez on the state of her candidacty and what is going on in Alhambra. The interview, the first in a series on the election, pings back and forth between her work in Alhambra and her vision for Senate District 25 This is Pérez's third time on SGV Connect. To listen to the other podcasts, click here. To read a transcript of the interview, click here. SGV Connect is supported by F...
SGV Connect 107 - Happy Centennial West Covina
February 16, 2023 21:51 - 21 minutes - 17.1 MBThis week's SGV Connect is a special episode celebrating the centennial for West Covina. Chris Greenspon interviews local historian John Garside about the city's history, covering topics ranging from how the city hall got its name (from a stagecoach company) to lamenting some businesses that closed in recent years. You can read a transcript of the interview, here. West Covina is holding a festival this weekend to celebrate 100 years of being incorporated. You can get all the details at ...
SGV Connect 106 : El Monte Poet Steve Valenzuela and an Update on Puente Hills Landfill Park
February 01, 2023 00:41 - 55 minutes - 44.3 MBWelcome to SGV Connect episode 106, the first episode of 2023. This episode is nearly an hour long with a pair of great, but very different, interviews. First, Chris Greenspon interviews Steve Valenzuela, El Monte poet and writer in residence for the new Zamora Art House in El Monte. The interview touches on Valenzuela’s poetry, his work as a school teacher and how his life experiences influence his poetry, teaching and advocacy. The interview touches on his collaborations with the South E...
SGV Connect 106 : Au Revoir 2022 and Zine Editor John Axtell.
December 15, 2022 20:12 - 43 minutes - 31.4 MBIt's mid-December, and that means it's time for our annual end-of-the-year SGV Connect Podcast featuring not just Damien Newton and Chris Greenspon, but also Streetsblog LA Editor Joe Linton and Streetsblog California Editor Melanie Curry. After that, we have one last interview by Chris with John Axtell published a literary zine this year about the landscape and culture of the SGV. John and Chris talk quite a bit about open spaces, and rebuilding the industrial wastelands around the 605. B...
SGV Connect 105 : Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A.
November 18, 2022 04:07 - 47 minutes - 37.2 MBThis week’s SGV Connect features an over forty minute interview by Chris Greenspon with author and history professor James Zarsadiaz about his recent book, Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. (Buy it from University of California Press, here.) Zarsadiaz’s book focuses on six communities, five in the San Gabriel Valley (Walnut, Diamond Bar, Rowland Heights, and Heights, and a community within the city of Pomona known as Phillips Ranch) and Chino Hi...
SGV Connect 104 : Election Special!
October 27, 2022 19:30 - 13 minutes - 9.97 MBWith the next election day less than two months away, SGV Connect sits down with Topher Mathers who reviewed dozens of ballot measures throughout the San Gabriel Valley before Active SGV made endorsements for local measures throughout SGV cities. This is our second podcast focusing on the 2022 election. SGV Connect #100 featured an interview with Ricardo Martinez, a progressive challenger to the incumbent La Puente Mayor and Katrina Kaiser with Streets for All who moderated a City Council ...
SGV Connect 103 - San Dimas Station and Artist Julian Lucas
October 11, 2022 18:31 - 21 minutes - 15.4 MBThis week's SGV Connect is a bit of a departure from our usual format. Instead of two interviews, we start with a discussion between Damien and Chris about a lawsuit filed by the City of San Dimas against the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority. The lawsuit calls for a halt to constuction while the issue of where the parking lot for the station is built. The discussion builds on years of reporting, some by Streetsblog and some by other local news. For more background please read, "Sa...
SGV Connect: Safe Systems and SGV Cycling
September 15, 2022 22:39 - 30 minutes - 22.7 MBThis week's SGV Connect features an interview with the director of the Pasadena Department of Transportation and Vincent LaRocca of the new group ride bicycling group SGV Cycling. As Damien notes in our first interview with Pasadena's Laura Cornejo, SGV Connect was long overdue for a story on the Rose City. In the couple of days since we recorded the podcast, Chris Greenspon covered the 19 projects that the city is planning to build with repurposed funds from the defunct 710 expansion pro...
SGV Connect 101 - The East San Gabriel Valley Area Plan and the Future of Journalism
August 26, 2022 18:05 - 44 minutes - 31.7 MBThis week's SGV Connect features two interviews by Chris Greenspon on two different, but important issues. First, Chris interviews James Drevno, a Senior Regional Planner with L.A. County Planning. James is working on the East San Gabriel Valley Area Plan which focuses on the unincorporated “islands” that are scattered throughout San Gabriel Valley. Within these areas, the Mobility Action Plan focuses on where there is the most need for bicycle and transit infrastructure improvements. To r...
SGV Connect Episode 100 : Elections in La Puente and Monterey Park
August 04, 2022 21:17 - 39 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week's SGV Connect focuses on a pair of local city council races in the cities of La Puente and Monterey Park. The first interview features Ricardo Martinez, a progressive challenger to the incumbent City Councilmember and Mayor Charlie Klinakis. The interview touches on Martinez's personal history, platform, and plans to revitalize the city by encouraging investment in La Puente's downtown. In the second interview, Damien talks with Katrina Kaiser with Streets for All. They helped ...
SGV Connect 99 - Imperfect Paradise and Update from Sacramento
July 21, 2022 21:35 - 43 minutes - 26.9 MBThis week on SGV Connect, we’re bringing you a special interview with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and then our quarterly update with Melanie Curry of Streetsblog California. Adolfo is a household name in the public radio world, covering higher education at KPCC. He spent the last year on a special assignment, investigating the death of a 90’s Chicano civil rights activist from Baldwin Park, Oscar Gomez for a podcast from KPCC’s LAist Studios. Imperfect Paradise: The Forgotten Revolutionary foll...
SGV Connect: Bike Shop Owner and Former Newspaper Publisher Carlos Morales
July 07, 2022 17:03 - 57 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week's SGV Connect features an interview with Carlos Morales of the Eastside Bike Club and Stan's Bike Shop. The interview, conducted by Chris Greenspon, discusses Carlos' history as a carfree journalist and how bicycling saved his life. Longtime readers may remember that when Morales wasn't publishing his by-line with Voice Community News, you could occasionally find his work at Streetsblog L.A. THIS is a long-form interview you won't hear anywhere else. So please, as you liste...
SGV Connect 96: Memories of El Monte Moves to New Space, Celebrates 626 Fest
June 30, 2022 01:20 - 14 minutes - 11.3 MBThis week's SGV Connect Podcasdt features an interview by Chris Greenspon with two members of the Memories of El Monte collective, Aron Montenegro and Alma Zarate. Chris visited the collective's new home on 626 Day when Memories of El Monte celebrated their new space and the local holiday. Memories of El Monte is planning to open a soup kitchen in January and possibly expand with a cafe and even bar in the coming years. The interview covers their plans, the collective's goals, and what m...
SGV Connect 95: Gold Line Extension Is 'On Time and On Budget' at 50% Mark
June 17, 2022 19:38 - 12 minutes - 9.21 MBThis week sees a special #SGV Connect podcast with Damien Newton interviewing Habib Balian, the executive director of the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority. As we publish this podcast, the Authority is holding a press conference to celebrate the 50% completion point of the current Gold Line extension out to Pomona. For a full transcript of our interview, click here. Read the press release for today’s event, here. SGV Connect is supported by Foothill Transit, offering car-free tra...
SGV Connect 94 - Accessible Bike Facilities and the Future Puente Hills Park
June 06, 2022 00:50 - 45 minutes - 34.1 MBTonight, Megan Lynch will present "Acesible and Complete Streets" at tonight's meeting of the Pasadena Complete Streets Coalition. To get the zoom link, click here and send a note to UC Access. Today, we feature her at SGV Connect for those that can't make tonight's meeting to hear her message. When she's not pushing for transportation planning that includes infrastructure that is accesible to all potential users, Lynch is a graduate student at UC Davis. There, she founded UC Access Now,...
SGV Connect 93 - Bike Month with Sen. Portantino and Active SGV
May 16, 2022 20:18 - 43 minutes - 33.4 MBMay is Bike Month, and we're kicking off the "Chris and Damien" era at #SGVConnect with two interviews that tie-in to bicycling in the San Gabriel Valley. First, Chris visits La Cañada Flintridge to interview Senator Anthony Portantino. Portantino famously became an avid cyclist during the Coronavirus Stay-at-Home orders and has developed his own bicycling exercise routine. He has taken his new bicycling passion with him to Sacramento where he authored legislation that would force more comm...
SGV Connect 92 : Meet Chris Greenspon
April 28, 2022 22:12 - 27 minutes - 21 MBThis week, the Streetsblog team is happy to introduce you to Chris Greenspon, our new writer and podcast co-host in the San Gabriel Valley. Many of you already know Chris from his other podcasting work as host of SGV Weekly, now in its second season. You can download or listen to past episodes at the SGV Weekly website. As has become our tradition, we like to introduce readers and listeners to our new team members by featuring them in a podcast episode. Listen in as Damien and Chris talk...
SGV Connect 91 - Damien and Kris, One Last Time
March 29, 2022 17:41 - 26 minutes - 19.2 MBToday’s SGV Connect podcast is the last one for the duo of Damien and Kris. As we previously announced, Kris is moving on to a full-time position with Santa Ana Active Streets. We certainly weren’t going to let him go without one goodbye podcast. Kris has written for Streetsblog on and off for over a decade first covering Boyle Heights then after a break moving to Orange County and finally covering the San Gabriel Valley where he lived and grew up. No last podcast would be complete withou...
SGV Connect 90 - Changes to Garvey Ave in Monterey Park
February 24, 2022 00:58 - 27 minutes - 21.8 MBThis week's SGV Connect podcast focuses on the Garvey Avenue road project in Monterey Park covered for Streetsblog L.A. last week by Jennifer Tang. Tang and fellow advocate Edwin Sun give an update on the project and discuss some of the challenges advocating for a better project on Garvey. At Tang noted in a different piece for Streetsblog last year, Monterey Park is planning to increase car capacity on Garvey Avenue using funds that were allocated from Metro. These funds were originally i...
SGV Connect 89 - 710 Mobility Hub Study
February 15, 2022 18:38 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBWelcome to this week's episode of the SGV Connect podcast. Kris talked this week with Kome Ajise, executive director of Southern California Association of Governments, and Ryan Johnson, associate planner at Alta Planning + Design, about the Interstate 710 North Mobility Hubs Plan. The project is trying to find potential locations around the I-710 N stub to install mobility hubs, a designated area that has two or more travel options, which can include transit, walking, bike share and micro ...
SGV Connect 88 - Looking Forward and Backwards with the Streetsblog Editors
December 27, 2021 21:29 - 41 minutes - 26.3 MBThis week, Damien and Kris welcome Joe Linton and Melanie Curry back to the podcast. Joe and Melanie are the editors of Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog California respectively and offer their insights on the big stories that shaped our coverage in 2021 and predictions on what to expect in 2022. The wide-ranging discussion covers the legislature, highway spending, new transit construction, the return of open streets and the 626 and many other issues. If you find yourself with some free time ...
SGV Connect 87 : A New Cartography of Greater El Monte
November 04, 2021 17:54 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week, Kristopher talked this week with Romeo Guzman, a member of South El Monte Art Posse, about the bike ride series “A New Cartography of Greater El Monte,” that they’ll be launching this Saturday. SEMAP has spent the last decade excavating the region’s history, and uplifting the art, culture and social justice contributions of the region in order to “rethink how we tell the history of the place and dig into its radical roots,” Guzman said. This work has resulted in a “3,000+ digita...
SGV Connect 86: Alhambra Councilmember Sasha Renée Pérez
October 19, 2021 22:49 - 43 minutes - 33 MBIn this week’s episode, we caught up with Alhambra Council Member Sasha Renée Pérez, who we spoke with in January two months after her election win. With still less than a year in office, she’s been active in leading Alhambra on many fronts, including adopting Hero Pay for frontline workers, supporting efforts around the Active SGV pop-up demonstration on Poplar Boulevard, and passing resolutions to form a Vision Zero working group and study the viability of rent control and just cause e...
SGV Connect 85 - Foothill Transit Forward
October 15, 2021 18:36 - 34 minutes - 25.1 MBThis week's SGV Connect features an interview with Felicia Friesema with Foothill Transit. The focus of our interview is mostly on the Foothill Transit Forward although there is a lengthy aside in the middle about the ways in which public comment has changed and improved during the pandemic and what steps agencies can take to continue to improve the general public's access to decision makers in and out of the boardroom. Foothill Transit Forward is a study that will evaluate all aspects o...
SGV Connect 84 - Memories of El Monte and Pop Ups in Alhambra
September 16, 2021 21:44 - 35 minutes - 26.3 MBWelcome back to the SGV Connect podcast, this week Damien talks with Active SGV about a pop-up bike lane in Alhambra, but first Kris checks in with some of the leaders of a mutual aid organization in El Monte. Kris speaks with Araceli Franco and Nickolas Segura of Memories of El Monte, a mutual aid community space in El Monte. The space is volunteer-run by locals and natives of El Monte and offers activities like mental health and college planning workshops, and even hosts a food distribut...
Meet the Board: Inland Empire's Marven Norman.
August 16, 2021 22:39 - 22 minutes - 14.9 MBToday we wrap up our Streetsblog California "Meet the Board" podcast series with an interview with the Inland Empire Bicycle Alliance Executive Director and Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice Policy Coordinator Marven Norman. Norman recounts his roots in advocacy from a bike commuter that struggled with streets designed to be unsafe for bicycle commuters, people walking or waiting for transit. Today he is one of the most recognizable faces for advocacy in the Inland Emp...
Meet the Board Special Series Number 6 : Abby Arnold
August 09, 2021 22:26 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MBAbby Arnold has been an advocate for a clean environment, people experiencing homelessness and for other progressive causes in her beloved City of Santa Monica for a lifetime. Half a dozen years ago, when Streetsblog L.A. was launching a pilot program in Santa Monica to see if the "Streetsblog model" could work in smaller cities, Arnold was one of the first to volunteer for our steering committee and has been a fixture with our team ever since. In today's Meet the Board interview series, w...
Meet the Board Podcast Series: Stopping and Moving with James Sinclair
August 04, 2021 22:12 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBRegular readers of Streetsblog California will recognize James Sinclair's name as the author of the Stop and Move blog on transportation policy in and around Fresno. James was one of the first bloggers to allow us to syndicate their articles, and we've featured his work a handful of times. James is also on the Board of Directors for the California Streets Initiative, the non-profit that publishes Streetsblog. Born and mostly-raised in Mexico, he often traveled to Fresno on holiday to visit...
Meet the Board : Terra Curtis
July 29, 2021 18:29 - 22 minutes - 12 MBThis July and August, Streetsblog California is podcasting a series introducing our Board of Directors to our readership. To check out our past podcasts with Jon Weiss, Carter Rubin and Kris Fortin, just click on their names. Today's podcast features Terra Curtis who researches emerging mobility policy for the California Public Utilities Commission. Curtis previously worked at Nelson\Nygaard and volunteered with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition working on the Better Market Street cam...
SGV Connect 83 : Damien Interviews Kris Fortin
July 26, 2021 20:38 - 29 minutes - 23.9 MBThis summer, Streetsblog California is running a podcast series interviewing and introducing its Board of Directors to our audience. These volunteers help keep the organization running even if they don't regularly get a by-line on our website. Today's SGV Connect features an interview where one of our co-hosts (Damien) interviews the other (Kris). In addition to his work with our San Gabriel Valley coverage, Kris is a member of our board of directors. The San Gabriel Valley beat is actua...