CFA: The Way Forward

Host Audrena Redmond is joined by Danielle Muñoz-Channel, Director of Basic Needs at CSU Long Beach. In this conversation on basic needs, Redmond and Muñoz-Channel discuss the challenges that college students face and encourage faculty, staff, and students to utilize and promote basic needs programs on CSU campuses.

Angelmarie Taylor, Fourth Year Business Major at CSU Channel Islands, shares her lived experience of low-quality food and housing at CSU Channel Islands. The life of a college student is far from the carefree narrative presented in the media.

In the first episode of this special series, Radio Free CSU examines the effects COVID-19 has had on faculty at California State University. Host Audrena Redmond sits down with CFA leaders as they discuss what happened in the CSU in the first month of physical distancing because of COVID-19, the issues and concerns of faculty that arose from campuses and how CFA’s work has changed.

In this episode, host Audrena Redmond and Dr. Derel Engen discuss the sixth Guiding Principle of CFA's Anti-Racism and Social Justice Transformation, which states that "We adopt changes in organizational values, policies, and practices consistent with principles of anti-racism and social justice."

In this special episode, Radio CFA CSU host Audrena Redmond talks with Charmaine Lawson, the mother of Humboldt State University student David Josiah Lawson, who was murdered near campus on April 15, 2017. To date, his homicide remains unsolved. In this discussion, Redmond and Charmaine Lawson discuss her son's journey as a student, and the need to better protect students of color in the CSU.

In Episode 5, host Audrena Redmond and CFA Activist Theresa Montaño discuss the need to have courageous conversations about racism and discrimination in order to transform our union.

Radio Free CSU host Audrena Redmond is joined by Tinselyn Simms, communications coordinator for the SEIU Racial Justice Center, and Anika Fassia of Demos to discuss the Race-Class Narrative to Unite Working People.

In this episode, Radio Free CSU Host Audrena Redmond and CFA Vice President Charles Toombs discuss the fourth Guiding Principle of CFA's Anti-Racism and Social Justice Transformation. As that principle states, "We acknowledge that we can be part of the solution by being intentionally committed to addressing it (racism)."

In this episode, Host Audrena Redmond talks to Kevin Wehr, CFA's Secretary and Bargaining Team Chair, about how CFA is part of the problem of racism, what CFA has done to improve, and what reception has been like amongst member leaders.

In Episode 2, CSU San Marcos Professor and CFA Activist Sharon Elise talks about how the union intentionally centers Anti-Racism as part of its mission, what is racism, and why the union has taken on this goal. For more information, including a transcript of the episode, go to www.calfac.org/radio-free-csu

"Stronger Together" is the inaugural series of Radio Free CSU. In this 10-part series, we will highlight and explore the guiding principles of the California Faculty Association's Anti-Racism and Social Justice Transformation work. In Episode 1, CFA President Jennifer Eagan discusses the first principle, which states that CFA is "a strong social justice organization, but we can be even stronger."...