Speakeasy alternating with Bamboozled Archives

Show by Rick Moniz

Joan Moses and Jean Canary, president and vice president of the Davis League of Women Voters, discuss the League's work on voter education and local elections, as well the history of the suffragists and 90th anniversary of the 19th amendment. Recorded Sept. 22, 2010.

jesikah maria ross co-founded and directs the Art of Regional Change, a UC Davis program that brings scholars, students, and artists together with community groups to collaborate on media arts projects that strengthen communities, generate engaged scholarship, and inform public decision-making.

ross is an educator, media maker, and community cultural development practitioner. She recently co-directed Saving The Sierra: Voices of Conservation in Action, an award-winning multimedia project that uses public radio, the Web, and citizen storytelling activities to document community efforts to conserve the culture, economy, and environment of the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California.

Her last film, MAQUILAPOLIS (Sound Recordist, Community Engagement Director) made in collaboration with workers in Tijuana’s assembly factories, aired nationally on PBS in October 2006. ross co-founded the National Association of Media Arts & Culture’s Leadership Institute, helped birth KDRT 95.7 LPFM, launched the Bioneers Reel Change Youth Media Program and designs participatory media projects for organizations in Europe, Africa, and the United States.

This show features Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS), a project of the CRESS Center at
the UC Davis School of Education. With SAYS Director Jason Mateo, and youth poets and poet mentors Charday Ife Adams, Alex Gonzalez, E-Legal Tag Team: Troublesin & Coon, and Adrian Gutierrez. Segment includes spoken word performances and discussion of what SAYS is and how youth can get involved. Recorded as part of Davis Media Access' "In the Studio" series.