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The Slowdown U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith brings poetry back to KALW’s airwaves. p. 8 Gloria Steinem In conversation with Inflection Point’s Lauren Schiller at the Castro Theatre p. 5 Winter 2019 KALW: By and for the community . COMMUNITY PARTNERS America Scores Bay Area • Association for Continuing Education • Bay Area Book Festival • Berkeleyside• Berkeley Symphony Orchestra • Burton High School • Cabrillo Festival • East Oakland Youth Development Center • El Timpano • Renaissance Journalism • Global Exchange • INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club Jewish Community Center of San Francisco • Oakland Voices • Other Minds • outLoud Radio • Radio Ambulante • Reimagine End of Life • San Quentin Radio • SF Performances • Stanford Storytelling Project • StoryCorps • Uncuffed • Youth Radio COMMUNITY PRODUCERS Dan Becker, David Boyer, Susie Britton, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Kristi Coale, Sarah Craig, Muna Danish, Julie Dewitt, Asal Ehsanipour, Ethan Elkind, Greg Eskridge, Zoe Ferrigno, Richard Friedman, Janos Gereben, Sadie Gribbon, Dawn Gross, Anne Harper, Sara Harrison, Nikolas Harter, Jeffrey Hayden, Mary Franklin Harvin, Luis Hernandez, Wendy Holcombe, Shingo Kamada, Dianne Keogh, Kendra Klang, Carol Kocivar, Martin MacClain, JoAnn Mar, Matt Martin, Emma McAvoy, Kristin McCandless, Amber Miles, Sandy Miranda, Natasha Muse, Mira Nabulsi, Emmanuel Nado, Zeina Nasr, Marty Nemko, Erik Neumann, Christine Nguyen, Chris Nooney, Edwin Okong’o, Kevin Oliver, Steve O’Neill, Joseph Pace, Peter Robinson, Dana Rodriguez, Selene Ross, Tommy Shakur Ross, Louis A. Scott, Dean Schmidt, Marissa Shieh, Marco Siler-Gonzales, Cari Spivack, Dore Stein, Claire Stremple, Devon Strolovitch, Niels Swinkels, Peter Thompson, Kevin Vance, Lilia Vega, Bo Walsh, Grace Won, Priscilla Yuki Wilson KALW VOLUNTEERS Susan Aberg, Frank Adam, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Tamara Artman, Judy Aune, Leon Bayer, Brenda Beebe, Susan Bergman, Laura Bernabei, Michael Brant, Nathan Brennan, Diane Brett, Joshua Brody, Lisa Burleigh, Peter Caldwell, Marie Camp, Steven Campi, Walter Castillo, Jessica Chylik, Linda Clever, Susan Colowick, Tally Craig, Keith Dabney, Carolyn Deacy, Pacia Dewald, Roger Donaldson, Louis Dorsey, Arabella Dorth, James Coy Driscoll, Laura Drossman, Kai Dwyer, Linda Eby, Eleanor Eliott, Jim & Joy Esser, Peter Fairfield, Peter Fortune, Nina Frankel, Michael Gabel, Mike Gaylord, Helen Gilliland, Andrei Glase, Dave Gomberg, Jo Gray, Paul Griffiths, Terence Groeper, Paula Groves, Ted Guggenheim, Jim Haber, Ian Hardcastle, Barbro Haves, Eliza Hersh, Phil Heymann, Paul Hocker, Kent Howard, Clara Hsu, Susan Hughes, Judge Eugene Hyman, Didi Iseyama, Jenny Jens, Brenda Kett, Franzi Latko, Claire LaVaute, Tom Lawless, Jason Lee, Joseph Lepera, Fred Lipschultz, Andrew Louie, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, William Maggs, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Ann Maley, Jeffrey Malick, Horace Marks, Tom Mason, John MacDevitt, Michael McGinley, Matt Miller, Susan Miller, Linda Morine, Reba Myall-Martin, Brian Neilson, Antonio Nierras, Laura Niespolo, Nils Nilsson, Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Emily Quiero, Art Persyko, Dale Pitman, Elise Phillips, Maria Politzer, Caterine Raye-Wong, David Rogers, Ronald Rohde, Marti Roush, John Roybal, Jaimie Sanford, Jean Schnall, Deb Schneider, Bill Schwalb, Ron Scudder, Marc Seidenfeld, Lezak Shallat, Anna Sojourner, Angelo Sphere, Kevin Stamm, Karin Stenberg, Tim Sullivan, Flora Summers, Linnea Sweet, Bian Tan, Howard Tharsing, Madelon Thompson, Sal Timpano, David Vartanoff, Gail Wechsler, Charlie Wegerle, Harry Weller, Patrick Wheeler, Steve Wilcott OUR LICENSEE, THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT Superintendent: Vincent Matthews • Board of Commissioners: Alison Collins, Stevon Cook, Gabriela Lopez, Faauuga Moliga, Rachel Norton, Mark Sanchez• Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe KALW PERSONNEL Tina Pamintuan, Laura Wenus, Producer Liza Veale, Producer General Manager Ben Trefny, News Director Ryan Nicole Peters, Producer William Helgeson, Hana Baba, Host/Reporter Bo Walsh, Producer Operations Manager Angela Johnston, Producer Holly McDede, Reporter Phil Hartman, Engineering Jenee Darden, Producer Eli Wirtschafter, Reporter Annette Bistrup, Judy Silber, Producer Lee Romney, Reporter Development Director Lisa Morehouse, Editor Truc Nguyen, Membership Jeanne Marie Acceturo, Andrew Stelzer, Editor Olga Volodina, Membership Announcer Shipra Shukla, Program Manager Raquel Maria Dillon, Editor Debi Kennedy, Announcer David Latulippe, Announcer Shereen Adel, Content Manager Damien Minor, Announcer JoAnn Mar, Announcer James Rowlands, News Engineer Bob Sommer, Announcer Rose Aguilar, Host Gabe Grabin, News Engineer Kevin Vance, Announcer Malihe Razazan, Sr. Producer Tarek Fouda, Engineer Eric Wayne, Announcer ABOUT KALW KALW is a pioneer educational station licensed to the San Francisco Unified School District, broadcasting since September 1, 1941 — the oldest FM signal west of the Mississippi. Mailing address: KALW Radio Offices: (415) 841-4121 500 Mansell Street Fax: (415) 841-4125 San Francisco, CA 94134 Studio Line: (415) 841-4134 KALW program guide edited by Tina Pamintuan and Shipra Shukla, designed by Georgette Petropoulos. © Contents KALW ON THE COVER: Tracy K Smith photo by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress. Gloria Steinem photo by Carly Romeo 2 Charting our course for 2019 and beyond As we look toward the future organization under the San Francisco at KALW, we’re excited about Unified School District (with all transformative changes that will usher donations tax-deductible) and will this community into its next phase. remain so. Adding 501(c)(3) status, will Last year, over profoundly increase our eligibility for charitable 11,000 active members funding. contributed almost 70% of KALW’s revenue. With I invite you to connect support from listeners us to like-minded at an all-time high, it’s no foundations and family secret that we depend charitable trusts whose on this community to work resonates with continue our work as the ours. Also, if you know Bay Area’s independent, a lawyer specializing in people-powered radio nonprofit law who can station. offer in-kind services, please send your referral We are at a pivotal to [email protected] with moment in KALW’s the subject line “pro bono lawyer.” history and I invite you to help us make changes that will impact this media We are the village that makes the outlet’s viability for years to come. difference. By prioritizing the right kind of business structure for KALW, we can To date, we have built a track safeguard this important community record of receiving funds to expand resource, while maintaining the culture, our newsroom. Grants like these are dynamism, and beauty, at its core. instrumental in sustaining many of Look out next spring for big changes our reporting projects, including San to the format of this program guide. Quentin Radio and Uncuffed from Solano A number of you have suggested that State Prison, The Spiritual Edge, Audio KALW minimize its “paper footprint”— Academy, and Your Call’s Japanese and we agree that it’s time to make this American internment history project. change which so clearly aligns with our It is, however, critical for KALW to values. develop stronger relationships with philanthropic foundations that offer Thank you for your faith in us. We operational support—funds that can be couldn’t do it without you. used to strengthen daily operations and Sincerely, our growing membership, digital, and Tina Pamintuan studio engineering projects. General Manager As we look for more foundational support in 2019 and beyond, we will P.S. If you are not signed up for our undertake the important work of email newsletters, please make sure to forming our own 501(c)(3) nonprofit. do so at kalw.org. It will help us stay in KALW is already a tax-exempt touch as we leap forward! 3 Uncuffed Radio storytelling from Solano State Prison Each week, KALW instructors, Jes- “We’re not trying to produce media sica Placzek, Andrew Stelzer, and Eli Wirtschafter, travel to Solano State where people in marginalized Prison in Vacaville, California to teach communities are the subjects. As audio production to students in the much as possible, KALW gives 4000-person facility. The resulting radio people who are not writing and feature and podcast is Uncuffed, a series producing the content the tools to conceived and created entirely by incar- do it themselves,” says Wirtschafter. cerated people. Each segment consists of a profes- are,” says Andrew Stelzer, a KALW editor sionally produced conversation between and instructor on the project. two prisoners, and all of the production During the class, instructors play —from conceptualizing the story idea stories from the widely known NPR to recording and editing the interview, StoryCorps series. Steltzer explains this is done by imprisoned individuals. This practice helps the budding radio pro- fall’s class includes Damon L. Cooke, ducers “realize that things happening in Steve Drown, Spoon Jackson, Joe Kirk, their lives are of interest, and it reminds Bryan Mazza, Julian Glenn Padgett, and them of their self worth.” Brian Thames. Uncuffed stories share the In one conversation, Aaron Daria human side of incarceration, reflecting talks about his dream of starting a ranch. what’s meaningful to the storytellers. Daria, who was tried as an adult when he was 16, says he wants to give back to kids in juvenile detention centers: “… being able to be connected to the land and just not all of this concrete and