It's Your Voice

Fairuze Ahmed Ramirez shares how her identity & lived experience inform her commitment to teach liberatory writing, empowering students to draw on personal, family, & community stories to challenge dominant narratives, & express voices that are often ignored, excluded, or misrepresented. Her approach centers lived experience & community knowledge as meaningful sources of understanding, ethical storytelling, cultural respect, integrity, & accountability to historically marginalized communities.

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Camica Edwards Avorgbedor, licensed professional clinical counselor, daughter, sister, mother, community leader, career public educator, curriculum creator on practical applications of the 7 principles of Kwanza to live year-round, shares her thoughts on the challenges of filling the shoes of great women mentors who came before us. She illustrates aiming high to match their level of impact, excellence, service and inspiration. Camica advises Black Student/Staff Unions for multiple area schools.

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Serena Peregrina-Williams, PhD, is a linguist and educator who integrates language, place, and storytelling into a coherent life of public-facing humanities. She teaches interdisciplinary linguistics courses that explore how language shapes identity, culture, and meaning, and what is at stake when languages are lost. Through Chronos Heritage Services, she leads walking tours of Davis, CA and Anchorage, AK that bring those same questions into the physical landscapes where history unfolded.

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Davis Chief of Police Todd Henry spells out the role of city police if/when ICE or Border Patrol show up. Given the illegal, extremely brutal conduct that the world witnessed from federal agents in Minnesota that resulted in two killings & other terrifying acts, Chief Henry leads DPD to build trust in & for the community with firm clarity that the job of local police is to protect the people, not to aid immigration enforcement. DPD wear badges, IDs & no masks & assure us that dialing 911 is safe

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Dr. Ruth Ann Zent & Aucha Kameroff humbly describe how to organize & mobilize from a tiny, rural town leading to a growing network for democracy. Aucha, w/masters in Public Admin & in Indigenous People’s Law is trekking 500+ miles on snow machines throughout rural Alaska to get out the vote from Kotzebue/Emmonak & Buckland, village to village with 2 friends to encourage all peoples to be civically active "as everything in our lives is being hit by critical issues that affect our existence!”

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Immigration Attorney Kamalpreet Chohan gives us a very timely opportunity to learn about legal defense services ranging from immigration enforcement to removal defense that she and other attorneys at the California Immigration Project provide. Tune in to learn highly relevant information about defense services, due process & other constitutional rights that should be upheld for everyone. Attorney Chohan discusses how community members can add to building collective support for everyone’s rights.

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Antonio De Loera is the Communications Director for the United Farm Workers. He shares information about the greatest challenges facing immigrant workers & what neighbors can do. He describes how violent acts committed by border patrol or ICE agents in US cities now has been the norm at the southern border where abusers of power should also be held to account. Antonio serves on the board of the Mexican-American Concilio of Yolo County & as Executive Director of the Yolo County Democratic Party.

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Diana Almendariz, Cultural Practitioner, Educator, & Gatherer of Maidu/Wintun, Hupa/Yurok descendancy carries decades of environmental expertise, skills & experience. She is uniquely qualified to address cultural, environmental, & food justice & cultural discipline given her deep knowledge of sustaining indigenous plants, cultural fire & ecological systems. She teaches traditional practices in her Native Maidu homeland of Sacramento. Anuj Vaidya, of YoloSol Collective, joins the discussion.

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Richard Hughes explores the links between human health & the health of planet Earth in this interesting conversation, with his 30 years of experience working in public health and environmental conservation for Johns Hopkins University and the World Wildlife Fund. He began his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal, then worked in many Asian & African countries. Learn how the health of all planetary eco-systems are essential to securing our future: The health of the planet, the health of us.

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.

Heart of Davis is a volunteer run program that manages Safe Parking for people living in their vehicles who need a safe, legal place to sleep overnight. Andrew Waterhouse & Kary Shender help ensure that the program provides secure, monitored parking spaces & that each participant is treated with respect & dignity. Research, partnerships & volunteers make Safe Parking possible, a compassionate temporary solution to bridge the gap to more stable housing & other resources. Hear its evolving vision!

It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).

It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.