Making Contact’s Community Storytelling Fellow Vincent Medina is a Chochenyo Ohlone Native American who is a part of a young generation working to revitalize the Chochenyo language for future generations.  Making Contact’s Community Storytelling Fellow Isabella Zizi is a young native-american environmentalist shaped by the 2012 Chevron Refinery Explosion and by her indigenous women elders in the Refinery Corridor Healing Walks in the Bay Area of California.

Featuring:  

Vincent Medina, Chochenyo Ohlone, Language and Culture Activist, Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow

Credits 

Host: R.J. Lozada

Producers: Vincent Medina, Isabella Zizi

Laura Flynn, R.J. Lozada, Monica Lopez, Anita Johnson, Marie Choi

Executive Director: Lisa Rudman

Web Editor and Audience Engagement Director: Sabine Blazin

Development Associate: Vera Tykulsker

For More information:

Refinery Corridor Healing Walks

Salon: If we stopped emitting greenhouse gases right now, would we stop climate change?

The New York Times : E.P.A. Moves to Rescind Contested Water Pollution Regulation

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