Manhood, now. A national conversation co-hosted by Anna Sale and W. Kamau Bell. p. 5 Cabrillo Festival 2018 America’s leading festival of contemporary orchestral music, presented by Sarah Cahill p. 8 Inside the Hidden Brain A conversation with Shankar Vedantam p. 6 A shocking violation of our democracy, and its legacy today. p. 9 A farewell Manager’s Note from Matt Martin p. 3 Summer 2018 KALW: By and for the community . COMMUNITY BROADCAST 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 • Youth Radio KALW VOLUNTEER PRODUCERS & ENGINEERS Dan Becker, David Boyer, Susie Britton, Zoe Burleson, Sarah Cahill, Bob Campbell, Kristi Coale, Sarah Craig, Muna Danish, Julie Dewitt, Asal Ehsanipour, Ethan Elkind, Greg Eskridge, Zoe Ferrigno, Richard Friedman, Janos Gereben, Nato Green, 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, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Emma McAvoy, Kristin McCandless, Amber Miles, Sandy Miranda, Natasha Muse, Mira Nabulsi, Emmanuel Nado, Zeina Nasr, Marty Nemko, Erik Neumann, Ashlee Nguyen, Christine Nguyen, Chris Nooney, Edwin Okong’o, Kevin Oliver, Christopher Olvera, Steve O’Neill, Joseph Pace, Peter Robinson, Dana Rodriguez, Julian Rodriguez, Selene Ross, Tommy Shakur Ross, Louis A. Scott, Dean Schmidt, Lezak Shallat, Marissa Shieh, Marco Siler-Gonzales, Cari Spivack, Dore Stein, Claire Stremple, Devon Strolovitch, Niels Swinkels, Peter Thompson, Kevin Vance, Lilia Vega, Bo Walsh, Priscilla Yuki Wilson, Andy Xie KALW VOLUNTEERS Susan Aberg, Frank Adam, Bud Alderson, Jody Ames, Jean Amos, Tamara Artman, Judy Aune, Leon Bayer, Brenda Beebe, Nikki Bengal, Susan Bergman, Laura Bernabei, Christopher Boehm, Michael Brant, Nathan Brennan, Diane Brett, Joshua Brody, Lisa Burleigh, Marie Camp, Steven Campi, Walter Castillo, Jessica Chylik, Linda Clever, Susan Colowick, Tally Craig, Keith Dabney, Carolyn Deacy, 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, Daniel Gunning, 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, Vicky Julian, Brenda Kett, Franzi Latko, Claire LaVaute, Tom Lawless, Jason Lee, Joseph Lepera, Margaret Levitt, Fred Lipschultz, Andrew Louie, Toni Lozica, Diana Lum, William Maggs, Jennifer Mahoney, Jack Major, Ann Maley, Jeffrey Malick, Horace Marks, Tom Mason, John MacDevitt, Robert McCloud, Michael McGinley, Sylvie Merlin, Matt Miller, Susan Miller, Linda Morine, Reba Myall-Martin, John Navas, Brian Neilson, Antonio Nierras, Laura Niespolo,Tim Olson, Alice O’Sullivan, Emily Quiero, Art Persyko, Dale Pitman, Elise Phillips, Maria Politzer, Caterine Raye-Wong, 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, Tim Sullivan, Flora Summers, Linnea Sweet, Bian Tan, Howard Tharsing, Madelon Thompson, Sal Timpano, Kathy Trewin, 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: Stevon Cook, Matt Haney, Hydra Mendoza-McDonell, Emily Murase, Rachel Norton, Mark Sanchez, Shamann Walton • Director, Office of Public Outreach and Communications: Gentle Blythe KALW PERSONNEL Matt Martin, General Manager Laura Wenus, Producer Liza Veale, Producer William Helgeson, Ben Trefny, News Director Ryan Nicole Peters, Producer Operations Manager Jen Chien, Managing Editor Holly McDede, Reporter Phil Hartman, Engineering Hana Baba, Host/Reporter Eli Wirtschafter, Reporter Annette Bistrup, Jeremy Dalmas, Producer Lee Romney, Reporter Development Director Ninna Gaensler-Debs, Producer Marisol Medina-Cadena, Trainer Truc Nguyen, Membership Angela Johnston, Producer Chris Hambrick, Membership Jenee Darden, Producer Jeanne Marie Acceturo, Olga Volodina, Membership Judy Silber, Producer Announcer Shipra Shukla, Lisa Morehouse, Editor Eric Jansen, Announcer Program Information Andrew Stelzer, Editor Debi Kennedy, Announcer David Latulippe, Announcer Raquel Maria Dillon, Editor Damien Minor, Announcer JoAnn Mar, Announcer Josh Wilson, Digital Editor Bob Sommer, Announcer Rose Aguilar, Host James Rowlands, News Engineer Kevin Vance, Announcer Malihe Razazan, Sr. Producer Gabe Grabin, News 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 Matt Martin, David Latulippe and Shipra Shukla, designed by Georgette Petropoulos. © Contents KALW ON THE COVER: Christian Macelaru (courtesy Cabrillo Festival), Shankar Vedantam (courtesy NPR). 2 Let’s keep this growing. This is my farewell Manager’s Note. do outreach, and drive our fundraising In our next program guide – a special efforts that we can hardly fit all their September edition names on the page – KALW’s new GM opposite this one. Tina Pamintuan will We’ve built produc- address you in this tive partnerships space. with independent The work of tran- producers and an sitioning the GM role array of local orga- has already begun. nizations. And our I am writing at the membership base end of a week-and-a- remains strong, pro- half when Tina and I viding nearly 70% of worked intensively to our annual revenues prepare her to take (see p.4). the reins in Septem- I am proud of ber. She joined sta- what we have grown tion meetings, dug together at KALW. into procedures and details, met staff At a time when commercialism and and volunteers, and got to encounter profit-maximization appear supreme, first-hand the spirit of this creative com- when our privacy is compromised and munity enterprise. our trust undermined, when inhumanity Throughout our time together, my is championed by the most powerful – confidence in Tina as the station’s next we have sustained a vital alternative. leader continued to grow. She gets what Afer 76 years on the air, I believe makes KALW special and recognizes the KALW has only begun to realize its po- challenges ahead. She brings fresh per- tential as a positive force in the world of spective and knowledge, and has started public media and for the people of the to engage with the key programming, Bay Area. I plan on staying involved as operations, and development staff who a volunteer and listener-supporter, and will be critical to a smooth transition. hope you will join me in giving your full I had the pleasure of introducing support to the station’s new leadership. Tina to all kinds of KALW people, from I will forever be grateful for the op- Roman Mars to our latest crop of high portunities KALW has given me, and for school interns. I was impressed by her the support and fellowship I’ve received openness to the diverse individuals who from my amazing colleagues, from the make KALW go, and her passion for rais- volunteers who give this station heart, ing the profile of the great work being and from the listeners who make it all done here. possible. Those conversations also reminded Sincerely, me of how much the KALW community has expanded since I first set foot here Matt Martin as a producer in 2001. So many people General Manager give of themselves to help create shows, [email protected] 3 KALW Financial Overview The bulk of KALW’s revenue continues KALW has also increased its revenues to come from our more than 11,000 active from earned income, including ticket listener-supporters. In Fiscal Year 2018, sales, royalties, and production services. which ended on June 30th, total giving Federal support through our annual by listeners surpassed $2 million for the grant from the Corporation for Public first time in station history. Thank you! Broadcasting has remained relatively We have significantly grown the constant at just under $200,000. segment of our budget that comes Nearly two-thirds of KALW’s oper- from foundations and other institutional ating budget goes to local program funders. Key supporters in this area production – including KALW News, include: The Association for Continu- Your Call, and our announcing staff –as ing Education, our partner in the Audio well as our audio journalism training Academy; the California Arts Council, programs within the station and beyond. which supports Sights & Sounds, as The second-largest area of spending is well as our training work with SFUSD program acquisition, from distributors