Today we speak with Brooke Newman of Downtown Streets Team Santa Cruz.
DTS is  a volunteer work-experience program. In exchange for beautifying your community, participants receive gift cards to help with basic needs and access to employment and case management services that support in achieving individual goals. Five days a week you will find part of the Team working to keep the streets of downtown clean and debris free, while performing peer to peer outreach to men and women experiencing homelessness in this area. Don’t forget to say hi when you see them at work.
Learn more at https://www.streetsteam.org/santacruz
Follow them on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DSTSantaCruz
and learn about a Team in your area at https://www.streetsteam.org/index

Today we sit down with Eric Shapiro. Eric, with his wife Rhoda started the Milpitas beat to bring community news to Milpitas in an enlightening and enthusiastic way. The Milpitas Beat is a community-based print and online newspaper located in Milpitas, California. Their vision is to cultivate a more connected, conscious, and vibrant community by providing news coverage that truthfully reflects the expression, ideas, and culture of the people of Milpitas.

The new print edition, which just launched in April 2019, is monthly, and comes out on the third Thursday of every month. 

There’s no use sugar-coating it: Local journalism is in jeopardy. All across this country, newspapers, faced with decreasing revenue, are closing up shop. And many of the newspapers that are still surviving have been gobbled up by private equity firms. These firms put their focus on building profit, and not community; and in the process, have turned once-vibrant newspapers into shells of their former selves. 

That’s why they created The Milpitas Beat. They want to work to create a newspaper that is deeply in touch with what the residents of Milpitas are thinking, feeling, and wanting to see in their community. Guided by a deep fascination of people, stories, culture, art, education, and politics, the Milpitas Beat works with passion, always, to deliver the articles and media that speak most directly to the people they serve. Also, as residents of Milpitas themselves, they are deeply committed to creating a print and online newspaper that supports and enriches the community in any way it can.
Learn more at http://milpitasbeat.com/

This week we sat down with 17 year old Nithu Carthikeyan from Irvington High School in Fremont. Who, through a class project, was inspired to start an e-waste recycling program. Nithu is using money collected from saving e-waste parts to donate it to the House of Grace, which is a non-profit for people in need
His other initiative is called Coding Cosines, which is a 501(c) 3 class that teaches children free math and coding at the Milpitas Library. You can access it here,
http://www.Facebook.com/codingcosinescc

Nithu has been interviewed and received award forms:
Eealanadu Newspaper
Uthayan Newspaper (both can be accessed under the news section of
http://www.keepbayareabeautiful.com

Mayor Tran of Milpitas
Assembly Member Kansen Chu
Assembly Member Anurag Pal
More can be found at https://m.facebook.com/beautybaes101

Today we are in conversation with Sanjeev Tanna, Founder & CEO of Next Generation Nations. NGN is an international organization that addresses social, economic, environmental, political, and many global issues that challenge humanity and the progress of societies around the world. NGN is dedicated to providing education on global issues to one child, one community and one country at a time. Empower the next generation to solve problems affecting the progress of societies around the world by year 2120.
For more information, contact https://ngn.org

This week we meet with Molly Hildebrand and Pam Gharibians of Be Rooted Botanicals. Two incredibly knowledgeable women entrepreneurs in Felton CA.
Be Rooted Botanicals CBD Arnica Cream is handcrafted in the Santa Cruz Mountains,
using the finest organic full-spectrum cannabinoids and other organic ingredients.
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We'll learn about CBD's benefits and dispel some myths this week on The Bay Area Beat.
Learn more at https://www.berootedbotanicals.com/
and https://www.projectcbd.org/

Also learn more about the Homeless Garden Project mentioned by Molly visit:
http://homelessgardenproject.org/

This week we talk to Scorpiana Xlynn about the San Jose Poetry Slam coming up Dec 8th and The Caravan in San Jose. We'll learn her story and how she became involved in Spoken Word Wizardry and how to get involved in their events. Learn more at http://www.pcsj.org/
The event info can be found on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/events/811052876009550/
And stay in touch with them on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/Thesanjosepoetryslam

In continued celebration of Bad Ass Women Entrepreneurs, this week we feature Tracie Root and her amazing space in Santa Cruz "Gather-Santa Cruz". As they point out, "Our location in downtown Santa Cruz offers a unique vibe, with the beach and the mountains so close-by, and historic Pacific Avenue only a couple of blocks away. This is a space where everyone can relax and be present, where we can focus on the people around us and on getting to know each other better, so we can create fulfilling lives for ourselves, for our families, and have a positive impact on the community and the world around us."
Learn more at https://www.gatherinsantacruz.com/
Gather In Santa Cruz
181 Walnut Ave
Santa Cruz, California
Call (831) 291-3839

Today on a very special edition of The Bay Area Beat we celebrate women and song as we feature The Raise Her Voice Project spearheaded by Chelsea Marie in Santa Cruz.  It’s a collective of women singer songwriters who are taking their talents and message through new and unique paths. Unsatisfied with bars and coffee houses, the women featured as part of Raise her Voice Project spread their songs through collaborative concerts that take place anywhere from community halls to yoga studios. And it’s not just the amazing showcases of talent coming from the Santa Cruz area. Raise Her Voice is empowering women who have had doors closed on them through conventional platforms and are taking their songs to people straight into their hearts. We caught up with Chelsea and a few other singer songwriters after a truly dynamic concert featuring 7 woman artists this past week in Santa Cruz. They share their vision, their journeys and their songs with us today on The Bay Area Beat.
For more info: https://www.chelseamusicandsoul.com/
Featured Artists:
Lyndsay Stone: https://lyndsaystone.bandcamp.com/releases
Lyric Raven: https://www.facebook.com/lyricravenmusic
Sea Reinas: https://www.seareinasmusic.com
Sarah Songbird: https://www.facebook.com/SarahFSongbird/
Emily Perry: https://www.facebook.com/emilyperryyoga/
Jenny Hollidae: Jenny is a word wizard. Using language to cast poetic strings of magic , she has been writing for 13 years in an effort to understand her own consciousness and what the heck is really going on here in this collective soup we call reality.  If She had to generalize with a genre It’d be Hip Hop and folk, songs in the name of Love.
Rose Dayal: Rose was introduced to music at 16 years old when her father gave her a guitar.  He taught her a few chords and she has been expressing her emotion through songwriting ever since.  She receives and writes medicine music and is passionate about learning traditional medicine songs from around the world.  Along with music, she studies eastern philosophy, yoga, South American shamanism and the connecting threads between diverse spiritual traditions.
The opening song is by Sea Rienas.
Closing song "Finch" by Lyndsay Stone

Today we speak to Alex Ontiveros, Founder and CEO of Silicon Valley Latino. Alex has had a long career helping to empower students and professionals in the Latino Community. We'll get more information about the Raíces: Creo en ti Event Saturday, November 9, 2019. This day long conference strives to empower and educate historically underrepresented Latino/a high school students by providing them exposure to various aspects of college. They hope to inspire students of marginalized backgrounds to pursue higher education while also providing them with critical tools to further their success.Throughout the program, students will have the opportunity to interact with various members of the Latino/a community, including Latino/a professionals as well as Santa Clara University professors and students.
That evening there will also be a Latino Leaders Awards Celebration designed to pay tribute to the work of numerous exceptional Latinos.
Learn more about Silicon Valley Latino at http://www.svlatino.com
You can register for the Creo En Ti summit at https://ugrdslate.scu.edu/register/?id=a9c04769-619e-46d0-a27a-abcb62465d87
Professionals can attend by visiting https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raices-creo-en-ti-summit-2019-tickets-75161830057?fbclid=IwAR1pDmXwc9cRQ6iBJWEJ68yge850GWjF-Lf8QFi-6PV82I16oa4ikAX_XBA
And get tickets for the evenings awards ceremony at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/svl-latino-leaders-award-ceremony-tickets-77891839589?fbclid=IwAR3tJg8UGCOsgac0lBh-KgbVVLama84aUVXV3YlSjTstKUzN6saZePJU3-A

This week we are talking all things FILM, as we are really excited to be involved with The Poppy Jasper Film Festival. We'll talk with Festival Director Mattie Scariot who's professional life has been devoted to creative film and TV productions, and we'll learn more about her community spirit in supporting the Santa Clara Valley arts scene. Independent films are on the rise, bringing new stories to the screen and winning Academy Awards. Filmmakers need access to industry professionals and to their audience. They’re finding it through film festivals like Poppy Jasper and digital age media distributors like Netflix. It’s why this festival exists, and we are looking to spread the support to make 2019 our best year ever. Young film makers and industry professionals rub elbows and dig deep into the creative conversation with their audiences in this unique setting taking place in Gilroy, Morgan Hill, San Juan Bautista and Hollister. Film makers have until Oct. 28th to submit their films for review and there will be a best of Poppy Jasper Film Festival from last years submissions on November 1st and 2nd. To learn more about all the events and happenings surrounding the festival, go to http://www.pjiff.org
Film makers, submit your entries at https://filmfreeway.com/ThePoppyJasperInternationalFilmFestival