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0:08 — Negar Mortazavani is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and host of the Iran Podcast. 0:33 — Aaron Peskin is the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 3. 0:45 — Ty Kawika Tengan, is a Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
0:08 — Jenny Odell is a multidisciplinary artist and author based in Oakland, CA. Her latest book is Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock.
0:08 — Abdushakur Aboud is the senior Editor for the Swahili service of Voice of America. 0:33 — Lilian Serrano is Director of the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC). Paulina Reyes, is Staff Attorney at Immigrant Defenders Law Center’s Cross-Border Initiative and Chair of the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC).
0:08 — Brian Concannon is a human rights lawyer and the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti. 0:33 — Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist at Mission Local.
0:08 — Damon Tighe, works in biotechnology and moonlights as a naturalist; he’s been organizing volunteer documentation of the bloom and its effects. Eric Buescher, senior attorney at San Francisco Baykeeper. 0:33 — Brad Shaffer is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. He is also the director of UCLA’s … Continued
0:08 — John Feffer is Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. 0:33 — Dr. John Swartzberg, clinical professor emeritus of infectious diseases at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health.
0:08 — Dr. Robert Okin is former chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. He spent two years interviewing people on the street who seemed to have mental disorders; his book about that, just out in its second edition, is SILENT VOICES: People with Mental Disorders on the Street.
0:08 — Yousef Munayyer is a fellow at the Arab Center in Washington, DC. 0:33 — Abdushakur Aboud is the Senior Editor for the Swahili service of Voice of America.
0:08 — Kenneth White, former federal prosecutor, current federal defense attorney, and the host of the podcast “Serious Trouble” about Donald Trump’s legal problems. 0:33 — Leah Simon-Weisberg is Legal Director at ACCE Institute and Adjunct Professor of UC Law, SF (UC Hastings) and Chair of the Berkeley Rent Board.
