OC In Focus

OC In Focus

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OC In Focus episodes

  • 2% Excellence in Black Artistry with Britt Samuels and Eric Jones
    2% Excellence in Black Artistry calls attention to the scarcity of Black representation in Orange County and in the art world more broadly. While acknowledging this structural absence, the exhibition honors artists whose work asserts presence, depth, and influence beyond their numbers. The title marks both a reality and an invitation—to look more closely, to recognize what is too often overlooked, and to expand the space in which these voices can be seen.
    This episode is a conversation with two of the artists featured in 2%: photographer and founder of OC Arts Guild, Britt Samuels, and Eric Jones, artist and art instructor at Irvine Valley College and Saddleback College.
    34 min
  • Slavic Film Festival
    The first Slavic International Film Festival in Los Angeles was created to foster a deeper understanding of Slavic cultures from countries including Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Croatia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, North Macedonia and Montenegro. Our guests for this show are festival juror Misha Suvorov and filmmaker Tatyana Batalova, whose film Better Not Write will screen at this year’s event.
    30 min
  • Working Toward Restorative Justice
    The United States has one of the highest rates of incarceration and the largest prison population in the world. Artist and poet Halim Flowers has been featured in HBO’s Emmy Award Winning docuseries America Undercover: Thug Life in DC. In this show, Flowers shares what restorative justice is, why the U.S. prison system is dehumanizing, and shares some of the countries that are imagining and actualizing justice beyond prison.
    30 min
  • Cold Case Files with Bob Taft
    There are currently 89 unidentified Jane and John Doe cases across Orange County. Bob Taft, retired Detective from the Orange County Sheriff’s Homicide Detail, is working part-time with the Coroner’s office to use DNA genealogy to identify these persons and find family members. Taft covers a Jane Doe who was recently identified as Maritza Glean Grimmett. Plus the Lonnie Thomas homicide case and Michael Schlicht, a 17 year old who is likely a victim of Randy Kraft, the “Scorecard Killer.” Anyone with information related to these cases is encouraged to contact Orange County Crime Stoppers at 1-855-TIP-OCCS or crimestoppers.org.
    30 min
  • Human Trafficking in Orange County

    California has the most severe human trafficking issue in the United States. Our guests are Retired Anaheim PD officer Happy Medina who was part of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force, and Nefta Pereda, Chief Program Officer at Radiant Futures (a Task Force partner). We discuss how traffickers are using social media and dating apps to find potential targets and red flags for identifying when you might be talking to a trafficker. 

    30 min
  • High School Students Leading Community Impact Projects

    Each year the Orange County based Dragon Kim Foundation (DKF) Fellowship program provides transformational leadership and business training for high school students and future entrepreneurs in California, Arizona, and Nevada. DKF founder Daniel Kim shares that in 2025, DKF will be supporting 65 projects through the six-month program. OC School of the Arts students Vedant Dayal and Ashima Sharma took their project Heart-to-Art through the fellowship and became the 2024 winners of the Dragon Challenge. Heart-to-Art is a summer program with art workshops for pediatric cancer patients, survivors, and families held in partnership with local hospitals and organizations. 

    30 min

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OC In Focus is a weekly, half-hour public affairs show that concentrates on important local issues concerning the Orange County and Saddleback College Communities. Hosted and produced by Associate…