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Episode 91: People can grow in meaningful ways after trauma. In this episode, host and psychotherapist Debra Sloss, explores the concept of Post-Traumatic Growth with Richard G. Tedeschi, PhD, one of the researchers who coined the term, and Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, who shares how losing her husband to suicide shaped her life and public service. Beginning with a moving opening story from...

Santa Cruz musicians Robbie Fitzsimmons, Cheryl Anderson and David Graham joined our show to talk about their journey in music and the productions Queerlantis and Considering Matthew Shepard.

Cindy Cohn’s new book, Privacy’s Defender, focuses on three legal cases that formed the basis for privacy and freedom of speech on the Internet. But it’s also a memoir, framing the issues raised by legal battles through personal choices and life events both mundane and momentous. In this unusual conversation, we leave the big legal questions behind and focus instead on our modern lives on the...

With nearly 35 years of nonprofit leadership, Maria Elena de la Garza, Chief Executive Officer of the Community Action Board (CAB) of Santa Cruz County has made a lasting impact on her community, working to expand services, increase community engagement, and foster cultural and fiscal growth. A proud Watsonville native, Maria Elena is deeply committed […]

Joining us at the table this episode will be Marlena De Castro the Santa Cruz County Community Outreach And Engagement Specialist from Miracle Messages, a nonprofit organization dedicated to building empathy and connection with people experiencing homelessness. Learn more about Miracle Messages and how to get involved by visiting www.miraclemessages.org.

Midwinter Break, adapted from Bernard MacLaverty’s 2017 novel, arrived in theaters earlier this spring. It’s a quiet, deliberate drama anchored by the lived‑in performances of Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds, who play Stella and Gerry, a long‑married couple navigating the emotional terrain of their later years. The film is less interested in plot than in […]

Sandy Faber is a University Professor Emerita at UCSC and a staff member of the Lick Observatory. She is an observational astronomer with research interests in cosmology and galaxy formation. Some of her major discoveries include the first structural scaling law for galaxies (called the Faber–Jackson law), large-scale flow perturbations in the expansion of the […]

Denise Miranda is New York State's top civil rights official, the head of an agency that is charged with monitoring and promoting civil rights in the state. She's also a proud native of the Bronx, daughter of Puerto Rican-born parents, and a mother. It's an unusual time for Denise—a Black Latina—to be in charge of the part of the government so despised by New York's most famous native son.

Gardens are bursting with growth and color! How many of those flowers, along with the other plants in our gardens that we may love and cherish, contain dangerous, often lethal, naturally occurring poisons?Many common flowers, fruits, and even vegetables (along with certain weeds and wild plants) may pose serious health and safety hazards to you, […]

Extractive Frontiers: Critical Minerals and Green Capitalism with Professor Thea Riofrancos, Providence College on Sustainability Now! Sunday, May 24th, from 5-6 PM The attack on Iran by the United States and Israel demonstrated, among other things, the necessity of a rapid transition to renewable fuels, like solar and wind. The technologies for capturing and converting […]