Last week I had the unique opportunity of teaching two back-to-back workshops for two very different audiences: one was a webinar for 80+ teachers from around the country and the other was an in-person class for 25 roller skaters in a park. The interesting thing is that both workshops were very similar in structure. This …
This weekend, KQED welcomed thousands of visitors to our headquarters for our 2nd annual KQED FEST! I had a blast as one of the greeters in the main lobby of KQED, welcoming people to our space and orienting them to the hundreds of things going on that day in the building and on the street. …
I’m of course proud to celebrate my five year anniversary at KQED. It’s been a wonderful journey and I’ve learned and grown so much being here. But honestly I’m even more grateful to be among colleagues celebrating 10, 20, and even 30 years at KQED! A testament to how happy and proud folks are to contribute …
The year 2023 was a time of planning and exploration for my work at KQED, with lots of exciting connections and conversations started that hopefully will bear fruit in the coming year. A highlight for me was getting to travel to Los Angeles to participate in the first Leadership Summit organized by the National Association …
This week I fulfilled a dream: skating for my colleagues at work. This was the culmination of a conversation I had with my co-worker Debbie about six months ago, where I asked her, “What would it take for us to host an open mic?” She replied, “Someone to organize it.” Six months later, I’m in …
I was watching the latest musical episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, in which one of the principal characters, Nyota Uhura, considers what her role is on the starship Enterprise. It’s a banger of a number and the actress Celia Rose Gooding kills it. It hit me right in the feels, not only because …
So I’m staffing one of the entry points for KQED Fest today, handing out programs and greeting people. It’s about 11:15am. A beat-up white truck pulls up and an older gentleman in overalls waves me over. He has a sour look on his face. “Good morning, how can I help you?” I ask, in my …
This year was one of growth and evolution of my work to support media literacy education everywhere, through our suite of high quality services, products, and relationships. While we haven’t reached the kind of mass impact that I believe our work deserves, I’m heartened by the stories of teachers impacted by our work, in big …
In my 33 years of professional life, I’ve had the privilege of only working for causes that I believed in. It all started in 1991 with the group of a dozen college students I led to a remote favela outside Tijuana, Mexico to build homes for Habitat for Humanity. And to this day, I’ve been …
At the end of July, KQED Education hosted about 90 folks for our “Educator Summer Media Making Day”, our first in-person teacher professional development day at our renewed headquarters. Welcoming a crowd of teachers into our building was a thrill for all of us as well as the participants. There will be more official reports …