Chino Y Chicano

Send us Fan Mail The Chino Y Chicano reflect on the January 6th insurrection , one year later. Both agree, our democracy is at risk and that communities of color have a lot at stake.  Read: https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/07/22/masked-men-are-detaining-people-when-will-washingtons-leaders-protect-us Read: https://nieman.harvard.edu/mark-trahant-wins-the-2025-i-f-stone-medal-for-journal...

Send us Fan Mail Did 2021 suck more than 2020? The Chino Y Chicano take up that question and much more as they review the past year.  What was good, bad and ridiculous for you? Let us know. Read: https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/07/22/masked-men-are-detaining-people-when-will-washingtons-leaders-protect-us Read: https://nieman.harvard.edu/mark-trahant-wins-the-2025-i-f-stone-medal-for-j...

Send us Fan Mail From the eruption of Mt. Saint Helens to Presidential elections and the Covid-19 pandemic, Essex Porter has covered countless stories in his 39 years as a reporter for KIRO 7 News in Seattle. Porter retired recently and joins the Chino Y Chino to talk about his journey into broadcast journalism where he became one of the most respected televisions news reporters in the Northwest. ...

Send us Fan Mail The Chino Y Chicano talk Apple Cup past and present with legendary college quarterbacks Sonny Sixkiller and Jack Thompson. Sixkiller starred for the University of Washington Huskies in the early 70s, making the cover of Sports Illustrated and becoming a Seattle icon. Jack Thompson made his mark as the Throwin Samoan in the mid-70s for Washington State University, He went on to bec...

Send us Fan Mail It has been a tumultuous year for Pat Chun. The WSU Athletic Director joins the Chino Y Chicano to talk about the Rolovich ordeal, the changing landscape of college sports, and what his mother thinks of him being the only Asian American athletic director of a Power 5 school.  Read: https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/07/22/masked-men-are-detaining-people-when-will-washingt...

Send us Fan Mail Toshiko Hasegawa and Hamdi Mohamed made history when they became the first women of color to be elected to the Port of Seattle Commission in its 110 year history. They join the Chino Y Chicano to talk about their decision to run for office, the challenges,  the racism they faced, and what they hope to bring as newcomers to the Port of Seattle Commission. Read: https://southseattle...

Send us Fan Mail Jon Gruden resigned as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails detailed by the New York Times revealed he used misogynistic and homophobic language to disparage people. Gruden is now suing the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodall claiming the emails were leaked to force him out of the league. Shortly after Gruden resigned, the Chino Y Chicano talked with Kurt Streeter of th...

Send us Fan Mail Althea Chow has been a Seattle school teacher for 20 years. But whether she will continue to teach is up in the air. Miss Chow, as she is known in the classroom, is taking off this school year. As she tells the Chino Y Chicano, the physical and emotional toll of teaching during the Covid-19 pandemic  have her pondering a future away from the classroom.  She shares her story on thi...

Send us Fan Mail Since June, vaccination rates among Latinos in Washington state have increased from 45 to 60 percent. But that still lags behind the overall state vaccination rate of 72 percent. On this episode, Dr. Leo Morales of the University of Washington tells the Chino Y Chicano that amid the progress, there are still challenges in vaccinating the state’s Latino population. Dr. Morales is a...

Send us Fan Mail  "No one is bigger than the university." Those are the words of former WSU and NFL quarterback Jack Thompson on the firing of WSU Head Football Coach Nick Rolovich for refusing to meet a state mandate and get vaccinated for Covid-19.  Thompson joins the Chino Y Chicano to talk about the Rolovich firing, the impact on the players, the university, and its supporters.  Read...

Send us Fan Mail Sadly, misinformation is alive and well in America today and it is posing a huge threat to our democracy. How did we get here? Why are we so gullible? The Chino Y Chicano take up those questions and more with Kolina Koltai, a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) at the University of Washington. Kolina studies how groups’ use of sociotechnical systems af...

Send us Fan Mail James Burn is the former station manager of King County Television and a close friend of the Chino Y Chicano. When he retired, he surprised us with the news that he was moving to Peru. We're not sure if it was something Matt said or that James wanted to endure a pandemic in a foreign country. We find out in this episode.  Read: https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/07/2...

Send us Fan Mail Republican voter suppression is happening across the country.  The GOP touts it as protection against election fraud, but it is clearly intended to limit the growing power of brown voters amid the nation’s changing demographics. The Chino Y Chicano go  deeper into this  blatant effort to undermine democracy with Seattle based author, historian, former journalist, and our good frie...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, the Chino Y Chicano talk with former KUSA news reporter Lori Lizarraga, one of the three Latinas whose contracts were not renewed by the Denver station over the past year. Lizarraga detailed the conflicts the three endured at 9News in an article she wrote for the Denver publication Westword. The article raised serious questions about discrimination, KUSA newsroom...

Send us Fan Mail Fights on airplanes, arguments over wearing a mask, white people calling police unnecessarily when a person of color shows up in their neighborhood and road rage incidents that end in gunfire. That is just some of the bad behavior going on these days as the lack of civility in American society seems to be out of control. On this episode of Chino Y Chicano, we talk with Seattle att...

Send us Fan Mail King 5 News anchor Joyce Taylor joins the Chino Y Chicano for a candid conversation about the racial justice protests, diversity in the newsroom, and her 36 years in broadcast journalism. Taylor is an Emmy and now Peabody award winning journalist. Recently, she and her King 5 News colleagues won the prestigious Peabody for Facing Race , a 13-part series that examined racial issues...

Send us Fan Mail Girmay Zahilay joins the Chino Y Chicano to talk about his first year and a half on the King County Council.  It has been a rollercoaster of crises from Covid-19 to police violence and racial justice protests, a growing homelessness and gun violence problem and now a re-opening of the state as vaccination efforts continue. Zahilay reflects on a council experience that so far has b...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Chino Y Chicano, we talk with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate who exposed the Flint, Michigan water crisis in 2014. She is also the author of What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City .  Dr. Mona’s revealed that children, mostly of color, were exposed to dangerous levels...

Send us Fan Mail  Seattle and King County officials are proudly touting a 70 percent Covid-19 vaccination rate. But Dr. Leo Morales says there is more work to be done especially among Latinos and other communities of color where the vaccination rate hovers at 50 percent. Dr. Morales joins the Chino Y Chicano to talk about the pandemic's impact on health disparities and Adios Covid , a project...

Send us Fan Mail Part two of Who are the Chino Y Chicano?  Enrique Cerna becomes the guest. He talks about growing up in the lower Yakima Valley, facing racism, his journey to WSU, where he is now a regent, and how he became a broadcast journalist.  Read: https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/07/22/masked-men-are-detaining-people-when-will-washingtons-leaders-protect-us Read: https://nieman....

Send us Fan Mail Who are the Chino Y Chicano? As the podcast marks its sixth month, the duo opens up about their life and times in a two-part conversation. In part one, the Chino, Matt Chan is questioned by the Chicano, Enrique Cerna about growing up Asian in Portland, Oregon, his journey into the television business, creating the reality show “Hoarders”, and how he became Matty Rotten.    Read: h...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode the Chino Y Chicano talk with Omari Salisbury, the guiding force behind Seattle based Converge Media. Omari and his staff of citizen journalists were in the midst of the Seattle protests, livestreaming 24/7. He reflects on the murder of George Floyd, the protests that followed and the impact on Seattle, one year later. Read: https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2...

Send us Fan Mail Yuji Okumoto joins the Chino Y Chicano for an unfiltered, entertaining conversation about his career as an actor, producer, and Seattle area restaurant owner. Yuji is well known for his role as badass Chozen in Karate Kid 2. He reprised the role in season three of the Netflix series Cobra Kai. These days, Yuji has taken on the role of producer of the independent comedy movie Paper...

Send us Fan Mail The Chino Y Chicano talk with attorney Jeff Robinson about his powerful documentary film Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America. Robinson is a nationally recognized trial attorney and the former ACLU Deputy Legal Director. The film features his groundbreaking talk on the history of U.S. anti- Black racism. It is interwoven with archival footage, interviews, and Robinson&apos...

Send us Fan Mail The South Seattle Emerald is celebrating its seventh anniversary. On the latest episode of Chino Y Chicano, we talk with its founder, Marcus Harrison Green. He left behind a lucrative career in finance to return home to Seattle, where with the help of his parents and others, he created the non-profit, online publication. We talk about the journey to give voice to the people of sou...