J.T. the L.A. Storyteller

In our 42nd episode, we catch up with Podcaster, Publisher, and Creator of #LosCuentos, J.T., on this new, yet timeless industry still burgeoning all around communities of color in Los Angeles and major cities everywhere. Written work quoted for this episode includes Carey McWilliams’ Factories in the Field (1940) Richard Rothstein’s The Color of LawContinue reading EPISODE 42 – HOW TO ROB THE NEIGHBORHOOD →

In our 41st episode, we welcome poet, singer and educator Gina Loring to our podcast to talk about an article of her’s at The Root, “The Wounded Explaining the Wound,” which describes a hate speech incident Gina encountered while in a graduate studies program at the USC Rossier School of Education. According to the RossierContinue reading EPISODE 41 – GINA LORING ON USC AND FORCED STERILIZATION →

In our 40th episode–the final for 2020–Sal Roses returns to our podcast, this time to chat about his experience as a supervisor for L.A. City Sanitation services, the city body which has overseen clean-ups of unhoused encampments on L.A.’s sidewalks and beneath L.A.’s freeway underpasses. Sal and I have a heart-felt talk about these clean-upsContinue reading EPISODE 40 – SANITATION IN L.A. WITH SAL ROSES →

In our 39th episode, we chat with Brett Shears, the founder of Vote Allies, an advocacy organization working to grant voting rights to historically disenfranchised communities, and a recent staffer for the successful Prop 17 campaign during this year’s elections. Brett and I have an extensive conversation on L.A.’s Neighborhood Council (NC) system, which isContinue reading EPISODE 39 – TO JOIN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL, OR NOT →

In our 38th episode, we chat with Dr. Kenya Mitchell, a Black writer, professor, and lead editor for the new Mother Mortality Project: an anthology of stories by Black, Brown and Indigenous women documenting discrimination in their pregnancies at the hands of the American health-care system. Dr. Mitchell and I discuss parenting in the timeContinue reading EPISODE 38 – DR. KENYA MITCHELL, PART I →

Listen to an activist describing the recently attempted eviction at the College Hotel on Santa Monica boulevard in East Hollywood, a part of L.A. City Council Member Mitch O’Farrell’s district. J.T.

In our 37th episode, we chat with Alissa Walker, one of the co-hosts of the LA PODCAST, as well as editor of Curbed L.A. I ask Alissa just one miscellaneous question, followed by seven questions “in a pack.” We unfurl the pack and discuss for listeners, including about pedestrianism in L.A., the infamous Target HuskContinue reading EPISODE 37 – ALISSA WALKER, CURBED L.A. →

In our 36th episode, listeners meet Lettwrs, a graphic designer based in Koreatown who just helped launch Garcettiville, a new website and initiative documenting Eric Garcetti’s broken promises as mayor of Los Angeles over the last seven years. We talk about how social media has utterly transformed the way in which communities engage with politics,Continue reading EPISODE 36 – GARCETTIVILLE →

In our 35th episode, at bonus speed for the long holiday week, we touch base with Albert Corado, of Atwater Village, who just recently declared his candidacy for the 13th council district seat (CD-13) up for election in 2022. Albert explains to us how the unthinkable tragedy of his sister’s loss at the hands ofContinue reading EPISODE 35 – ALBERT CORADO FOR COUNCIL DISTRICT 13 →

In our thirty-fourth episode, we connect with Godfrey Santos Plata, a queer, Filipino-American renter from Koreatown and first-time candidate for public office who just capped off one of the best races to watch in Los Angeles this election season. Jeffrey talks with us about he and his family’s migration to the United States when heContinue reading EPISODE 34 – GODFREY SANTOS PLATA, AD 53 →