Corporate IT Director Refocuses to Photograph the African Diaspora
Seismic Shift
While a technology professional at VISA, Kevin Jones begins spending his annual month-long vacations volunteering with NGOs in Central and South America. The experience transforms his own perspective as he encounters, up close and personal, the legacy of the African diaspora.
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From Political Staffer to Activist Coffee Shop Owner: Manny's Cafe
Seismic Shift
Meet Manny Yekutiel. Millennial. Son of an Afghani immigrant. Barista. After leaving Hillary Clinton's campaign, Manny explored how he might open a civic-focused space for social change. The result is the wildly popular Manny's Cafe in San Francisco's Mission district. Tune in to hear how he created a space that hosts everything from queer poetry nights, live recordings of the Recode podcast, fundraisers for migrant families and even presentations from 15 of the presidential candidates and so much more.
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Transport Leader Kate White on the Beginnings of City CarShare
Seismic Shift
Kate White is a leader in progressive transportation policy who seeks to make communities healthier, safer and more connected. Her path to that role began when she and two friends started the country's first nonprofit car-sharing operation, San Francisco's City CarShare. Kate takes us back to the early 2000s and what it was like to launch a nonprofit buoyed by revolutionary new technology in San Francisco, amid the dot-com era of IPO millionaires. She also talks community organizing, utopia and her fundamental disdain for the automobile.
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Housing activist Xiomara Cisneros reveals her childhood years of living in a video store.
Seismic Shift
Daughter of immigrants, Xiomara Cisneros excelled in her education and, ultimately, in her career despite years of housing insecurity as a child. Today she advocates for housing in the Bay Area.
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Fernay McPherson: Being vocal. Sharing the struggles.
Seismic Shift
After graduating culinary school, Fernay McPherson was juggling catering gigs and driving buses full-time for San Francisco's MUNI transit.
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No Shame No Judgment: Kristy Lin Billuni
Seismic Shift
After years as a sex worker and educator, Kristy Lin Billuni found herself navigating identities when she left that world and started a practice coaching writers. She joins us to discuss how she retrofitted her career in the sex industry to a career as a writing coach. As she tells it, those paths have more in common than you think. Today, Kristy’s business Sexy Grammar supports a community of writers, led by Kristy's own unique curriculum. And Sexy Grammar clients are turning out award-winning books, launching start-ups, earning Ph.Ds. Join us to hear the tale of Kristy's creative and...
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Introducing Seismic Shift - Episode 0
Seismic Shift
Introducing the first season of Seismic Shift, a new podcast featuring stories of everyday people who have made monumental changes in their work-lives. Listen, laugh, learn and get inspired.
info_outlineIntroducing the first season of Seismic Shift, a new podcast featuring stories of everyday people who have made monumental changes in their work-lives. Listen, laugh, learn and get inspired.
Special thanks to Ryan McGee for use of his composition based on earthquake data.