Dr. Linda Prieto, PhD Today we will talk about new and old methods of education. Our guests talked to us from Stanford University and from the University of Texas in San Antonio. Among them, Dr. Belinda Flores, Department Chair, and Professor of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies  at University of San Antonio. We also received Dr. Lorena Claeys Executive Director of the Academy for Teacher Excellence (ATE) also located at the University of Texas at San Antonio, both of them by video conference.  Here at the station, we welcomed Dr. Linda Prieto, also Ph.D., who just relocated to Palo Alto, and had been Assistant Professor The University of Texas at San Antonio for years, and part of the Nepohualtzitzin Project. The specific topic of discussion today is the learning of an ancient method of understanding mathematics, Precolumbian tribes developed that for millennia and today can be re-used to advance and facilitate the comprehension of simple and complex concepts through a graphic and logic way. Dr. Lorena Claeys, PhD The Nepohualtzitzin project had proven that small kids in preschool could easily understand concepts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and even square-root with this method in a playful graphic way. At the same time, college students for computer [...]

Today our guest is San Francisco poet laureate Alejandro Murguía. He is a Californian-born artist, son of Mexicans with a life-long experience in writing. In fact, he had recited poetry since he has in preschool and had been always involved in the art of languages in one way to another. Murguía is an important figure in activism in San Francisco, especially in the historically Hispanic Mission District. Murcia is also a professor of Latin American Literature at San Francisco State university and holds the title of the first Hispanic in achieving the honor of poet laureate in a city of poets, as he calls his beloved metropolis. Murguía has published 5 books of original work, and is always active in the city, involved in lectures, poetry readings, and lately even in cinematographic projects. His books  Southern Front(1990) and This War Called Love (2002) were both winners of the American Book Award.He also published “Stray Poems” (2014), “The Medicine of Memory” (2002), and “Farewell to the Coast” (1980). Young Alejandro Murguía in his activist role, on the streets of San Francisco You may also listen to the show on SoundCloud from everywhere and here: His latest project involves a new film inspired by a one of his original [...]

Latinnovation, by Graciela Tiscareño-Sato Today our story is about women in leadership, about stepping up to great challenges, about success and about military life. It is also about family and about following your dreams even when they seem big. Today I am bringing you a conversation with Graciela Tiscareño-Sato about her wonderful journey. Ticareño is the daughter of working immigrants in Colorado, first of five siblings, who found a sea of possibilities in the military. She got a high-level education from a worldwide leading university (UC Berkeley) with a scholarship from US Air Force before committing to a life in service. But later as an officer, she learned about piloting, navigating and all the technical matters about this complicated sophisticated machines that she rode for many years until her retirement. Tiscareño class graduation. The only women in the group. She is a veteran, a mom, an author, a small business owner, and a positive force of inspiration to many with her books and public speaking career. Today a profile of “Captain Mama”, and her path to success. _______________________________________ We hope to inspire and inform. We wish you can give us feedback, subscribe to this site and our social media outlets to [...]

Carlos Diuk-Wasser, Ph.D. Today a conversation with Dr. Carlos Greg Diuk, a computer scientist, and a data scientist at Facebook’s Core Data Science Team, who in his free time has been researching the occurrence of deep thoughts documented during the story of humankind. For this conversation sits with us our entrepreneurship columnists Daniel Caselles. His study began with the work of Dr. Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997), from Princeton university and his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1076). In his theory, Jaynes proposed that the structure of the brain changed around 3000 years B.C. to allow deep thoughts that before would have been understood as hallucinations or “God’s voice”. Although Diuk is not a follower of all Jaynes theory, but he together with a group of friends with the inspiration of Jaynes and decided to build a tool that analyzed all literature ever written in history.  They assigned levels of introspection to the words depending on semantics. This gave then a graphic way to understand the rise of analytic and introspective thoughts on humans throughout history. Here a presentation that Dr. Duik made at Brava Theater in San Francisco fro the series of talks called “Ignite“. _______________________________________ [...]

Ex-president Alejandro Toledo and his wife, during a press conference at UN, during his presidential term. Dr. Alejandro Toledo was democratically elected President of Peru in 2001, after a strong fight to restore democracy in the country. Just before he started his term in power, the country had to overcome great challenges. You may check the documentary at the bottom of this post. During his five-year term, the central aim of Toledo’s presidency was the fight against poverty through investment in healthcare and education. He was very successful changing the economic map of the country and achieved many of his goals for education and healthcare. Toledo is the first president in Peru of Indigenous descent, more specifically Quechua. Indigenous people from different tribes are actually the vast majority of Peruvian population, but historically the most marginalized. He was born in a small and remote village in the Peruvian Andes, 12,000 feet above sea level. He was born in a family with 16 kids from the same mother and father. Growing up he held many jobs, like a street shoe shiner, he also sold newspapers and even lottery tickets to supplement the family income. When he finished grade school he was expected to find a job, [...]