Beyond The Fog Radio

Welcome to Season 4 of Beyond The Fog Radio! It's our honor to begin this season with our interview with San Francisco's Mayor London Breed. Raised in San Francisco's Fillmore District by her grandmother, Mayor Breed saw firsthand how redevelopment brought great challenges to the people in her community. She began her public service career as Executive Director of the Fillmore's African American...

Beyond The Fog Radio Season 4 begins NEXT WEEK! We're so excited to begin sharing all of the great new interviews we've conducted in the past few months. But, to tide you over until then, we have one more re-release episode to present: our interview with Teresa Goines (Season 3 Episode 10), the founder and executive director of Old Skool Café in San Francisco's Bayview District. Formerly a juveni...

The Beyond The Fog Radio team is currently recording and editing new episodes for our upcoming Season 4 this August — but meanwhile, we’re revisiting some of our favorite interviews from Seasons 2 and 3. This week, we listen once more to our 2021 interview with Raz Kennedy (Season 2 Episode 08), a legend of the Bay Area’s music scene for the past four decades. Raz has involved himself in just abou...

The Beyond The Fog Radio team is hard at work recording and editing new episodes for Season 4, releasing in August! In the meantime, we’re revisiting some of our favorite interviews from Seasons 2 and 3. This week, we listen back to our conversation with former Mayor of San Francisco Art Agnos (Season 3 Episode 04) — politician, social worker, and game-changer. Art Agnos served as Mayor from 1988–...

The Beyond The Fog Radio team is hard at work recording and editing new episodes for Season 4, which will release this August! In the meantime, during this "summer break," we’re taking another listen to some of our favorite interviews from Seasons 2 and 3. This week's re-release is particularly special, as we revisit Sal Garcia (Season 3 Episode 03), the "Ferrari Doctor" of Waterfront Automobili i...

The Beyond The Fog Radio team is hard at work recording and editing new episodes for Season 4 — releasing this August! — but in the meantime, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews from Seasons 2 and 3. This week, we revisit our interview with developers and community leaders Michael Baines and Cathy Davis (Season 3 Episode 06). Michael Baines is a developer and contractor for low-i...

The Beyond The Fog Radio team is hard at work recording and editing new episodes for Season 4 — releasing this August! — but in the meantime, we’re looking back at some of our favorite interviews from Seasons 2 and 3. This week, we revisit our interview with the longtime director of the Mill Valley Film Festival, Zoë Elton (Season 2 Episode 16). Zoë has a keen, creative eye from years of exposure...

The Beyond The Fog Radio team is hard at work recording and editing new episodes for Season 4, releasing this August! In the meantime, we’re revisiting some of our favorite interviews from Seasons 2 and 3. This week, our retrospective takes us back to our interview with the utterly fashionable Bay Area power couple, Martin Luther & Jeanne Anyanwu McCoy (Season 3 Episode 1). San Francisco native Ma...

This San Francisco native has championed the intersection of food and nutrition services. Jenny Huston is a trained chef, former catering company owner, and holds degrees in both dietetics and food sciences. Having worked with government and non-profit social enterprises like Project Open Hand in SF, Jenny actively addresses issues of equity, nutrition and social justice within the food industry....

The Sierra Club began in 1882, founded by Californians who wanted to sponsor wilderness outings. Its first president, conservationist John Muir, rallied to preserve California forests, the Sierra Nevada, and the Pacific Coast. 140 years later, the Sierra Club has evolved into the prevention and now recently environmental activist that it is today. Chance Cutrano is on the all-volunteer executive c...

Justice Harry Low was the first Asian-American Judge in California. He served as Municipal Judge under Governor Edmond G. "Pat" Brown, as Superior Court Judge under Governor Ronald Reagan, as a Judge in the 1st District Court of Appeals under Governor Jerry Brown, and as Insurance Commissioner under Governor Gray Davis. Justice Low reformed numerous civil rights and immigration laws. Notably, he...

David Phillips is a biologist, activist, and Executive Director of the Earth Island Institute. This environmental non-profit is dedicated to developing and supporting fellow environmental non-profits and projects in need of legal, financial, technical, and organizational assistance. With a strong youth division, an award winning journal, and several globally-recognized awards and achievements, Ear...

LisaRuth Elliot is a visual artist, farmer, and longtime volunteer at Alemany Farms. This urban farm, located near the freeway in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, produces food that is donated to food-insecure neighborhoods. Serving on the Friends of Alemany Farms Auxiliary, LisaRuth has a palpable devotion to the farm. She’s attuned to all the nooks and crannies. From the best plants...

Sejal Choksi-Chugh is a fierce defender of the environment. From a young age she wondered why the water was murky, why the air was polluted, and why no one seemed to be doing anything to fix it. After receiving her law degree with a certificate in environmental law in 2002 from UC Berkeley, Sejal’s been taking charge at San Francisco Baykeeper, a non-profit whose mission is to protect our Bay. Usi...

Jared Blumenfeld is the Secretary of Environmental Protection for the State of California. From protecting air and water quality to regulating pesticides and toxic substances, Jared has had a direct and positive impact on all of our lives here in the Golden State. Thanks to his efforts, not only does SF have the strongest recycling and composting program in the country, but we have also banned pla...

Teresa Goines is Founder and Executive Director of Old Skool Cafe, a non-profit youth restaurant located in San Francisco’s Bayview District. Once a probation officer in juvenile prison, Teresa realized that locking up kids only perpetuated their troubles. She wanted to give them direction, income, community, and purpose. With the help of volunteer chefs and builders, Old Skool Cafe went from a sm...

Simon Snellgrove is Founder and Principal of Pacific Waterfront Partners, a development company dedicated to restoring the city’s Waterfront. Since San Francisco is such a difficult city to build in, this native Australian has shown immense resilience in facilitating a seamless transition between the old and new parts of the Embarcadero and Piers, all the while maintaining historical accuracy in h...

Oz Erickson is the Founder and Chairman of the Emerald Fund, a San Francisco-based real estate development company dedicated to transforming entire neighborhoods. Since 1979, Erickson and his company have turned abandoned warehouses into livable communities and commercial office buildings into residential homes, totaling over 8 thousand housing units. Oz also sits on several non-profit boards, all...

Charmaine Curtis is one of the first female African American developers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s creative, driven, and socially-conscious, developing affordable and below-market housing to build up and better her community. From multi-family homes to urban infill projects, Curtis has overseen or participated in the development of more than seven thousand housing units. We at Beyond The...

Our guests this week, Michael Baines and Cathy Davis, have done incredible work to help our city’s challenged neighborhoods. Michael Baines is a developer and contractor for low-income housing and founded his own company, BGI Group Inc. Even more, his company is the largest employer of formerly incarcerated people in the Bay Area. Cathy Davis is the Executive Director of Bayview Hunters Point Mult...

With over 25 years of experience in the Bay Area’s restaurant business, Pete Sittnick has opened, operated, and supervised more than 20 restaurants in the Bay Area and beyond. From designing innovative Italian eateries to teaching hospitality at USF, Sittnick’s knack for hospitality management has helped create some of the city’s most frequented restaurants. Most notable are his sister restaurants...

Politician, social worker, and champion of liberalism in San Francisco, former Mayor Art Agnos has left a lasting mark on our city’s offices and landscape. Through his 1988-1992 term, he worked to break up nepotism in the Fire and Police Departments, paving the way for our city’s second African American Police Chief and female Fire Chief. He made it possible for regular citizens to sit on city com...

The Ferrari Doctor, the Mayor of Potrero, the proud owner of Waterfront Automobili— Sal Garcia is a living landmark of San Francisco’s rich local communities. His story is one of immigration— from El Salvador to SF’s sunny Mission District, Garcia spent his formative years learning to master the English language and connecting with locals in his neighborhood. He graduated with Mission High with ho...

On a sunny February afternoon in Mission Dolores Park, Jae and I interviewed lifelong Latin dancer, arts educator, producer, and choreographer Elizabeth Soberanes. She’s been an active performer and resident in San Francisco’s Mission District for over 40 years, starting with a BA in Dance Ethnology from SFSU. Elizabeth is a champion of Latin dance styles including Afro-Haitian, Brazilian, Cuban,...