Radio Teco News

El Tecolote contributor, Johanna Lopez Miyaki, spoke to SFMTA Director of Transportation, Jeffrey Tumlin. Director Tumlin tells us about the challenges Muni faces as they try to reopen and navigate life during and after the Covid pandemic.

Welcome to Latina, Latino, Latinx News! On our first episode we have a special guest talking about diversity in not only sports but in all walks of life. Megan Reyes, Communications Director at Blue Wire Podcasts, talks to us about the campaign she created to help encourage a more equal society. 

This week we have our second episode of the series, "The Women of El Tecolote". and this time Accion Latina’s executive director Fatima Ramirez talks to another legend of the early days of El Tecolote and also one of the current board members of Accion Latina, Ana Montes. This episode is our last episode of season one, but we will be back the first week of August with more amazing stories and news...

James Cordero, Co-Director of the Water Drop Program at Border Angels, joins us to talk about the reality migrants deal with as they cross the border and the humanitarian aid Border Angels offers them. To learn more about Border Angels go to https://www.borderangels.org 

Joining us on this episode are the Jacobs-Fantauzzi brothers, Khalil and Eli, who produce and direct various films and storytelling projects. Of Jewish and Puerto Rican ancestry, Khalil and Eli have deep roots in the Bay Area and the Caribbean. We’ll be discussing their longtime activism in Puerto Rico, what just filmmaking and storytelling looks like, to them, the importance of highlighting the A...

Malik Washington, investigative reporter and community liaison of the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, talks to us about the history of Juneteenth and how the fight for freedom here in the United States is still ongoing.

Te presentamos la primera instalación de “Las Mujeres De El Tecolote”.  Hablamos con uno de los pilares de El Tecolote, la traductora y colaboradora, Hilda Ayala.

El Tecolote contributor, Ian Firstenberg, joins us today on Radio Teco to chat about what exactly is a Public Bank, why is San Francisco getting closer to agreeing to start one, and the history behind it. 

Former soccer player and current analyst for ESPN and ESPN Deportes, Herculez Gomez, joins Radio Teco to talk about the culture clash he felt as a Mexican-American playing and covering soccer in both the United States and Mexico.

Anthropologist Jason De León joins us to chat about his non-profit research-art-education-media collective, "Hostile Terrain 94". An exhibition composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019.

American-born Colombian Olympian, Melissa Ortiz, joins us on this episode of Radio Teco. We talk about her experiences fighting for equality for women's soccer in Colombia and her never give up attitude that has made her one of the hardest working people in sports media.

Gabriela López, President of the San Francisco Board of Education, joins us on this episode of Radio Teco. We chat about her first few months as president and the plan to reopen schools.

En este episodio hablamos de la importancia de la frase "Las Vidas Negras Importan" y cómo tenemos que apoyar a la comunidad Afro-Americano.

Author, and former boxer, Jose Corpas joins us to chat about the legendary boxer Panama Al Brown, the subject of his 2016 book “Black Ink.”

El Tecolote contributor, Johanna Lopez Miyaki, talks to three amazing guests who give us three different perspectives on the ugly history the United States has with eugenics and forced sterilization.

Afro-latino musician, Raka Dun, talks to us to about life in his native Panama, growing up here in the Bay Area, and how the social injustice of 2020 inspired his song "Libertad".

EN ESPAÑOL - En el próximo episodio de Radio Teco hablamos con el jefe de contenido digital de MLS en Español, Adolfo Lee, de su identificación como un Argentino con raíces Asiáticos. 

Documentarian, Rodrigo Reyes, joins us to chat about his latest film, 499, and what inspired him to make an experimental documentary focused on Mexican history.

“Charlando”, un nuevo serie mensual de Radio Teco donde enfocamos la conversación en un tema importante que fue el foco del mes que recién termino. En este episodio hablamos de los ataques a la comunidad asiática, la historia de el trato a los asiáticos en Estados Unidos y Latino America, y la importancia en la unidad con la comunidad asiática.

Gabriella Frenes, a local journalist, joins us to talk about her and her family's interesting history that ties Asian, Latin, and Chumash ancestry together.

We turn our focus back to CARAVANA: Mobilizing Central American Art (1984–Present), hosted by SOMArts. This time we chat with the three amazing curators, Fatima Ramirez, Josue Rojas, and Mauricio Ramirez about their inspirations to put this Central American focused art exhibition together. 

SF General Porter, Ryan Rouse, chat's with us about starting his new job in the middle of a pandemic and reminds us that it's not just the doctors and nurses who are the hero's in the hospital.

On our first cultural episode of Radio Teco we speak to three amazing Central American artists from different parts of the world who will be sharing  their work at CARAVANA: Mobilizing Central American Art (1984–Present) , hosted by SOMArts, from March 10 to April 15.

We start off our series with a topic that has been on all of our minds, COVID. Alejandro Galicia Diaz talks to us about his near death experience as he fought, and in many ways continues to fight, against the virus. 

Aquí hay una previa de lo que está por venir! Después de 50 años increíbles y exitosos, el periódico español/inglés de San Francisco, El Tecolote, está entrando en el mundo digital. ¡Esto es Radio Teco!