The Cutting Edge from KSQD

With nearly 35 years of nonprofit leadership, Maria Elena de la Garza, Chief Executive Officer of the Community Action Board (CAB) of Santa Cruz County has made a lasting impact on her community, working to expand services, increase community engagement, and foster cultural and fiscal growth. A proud Watsonville native, Maria Elena is deeply committed […]

Sandy Faber is a University Professor Emerita at UCSC and a staff member of the Lick Observatory. She is an observational astronomer with research interests in cosmology and galaxy formation. Some of her major discoveries include the first structural scaling law for galaxies (called the Faber–Jackson law), large-scale flow perturbations in the expansion of the […]

Adauto B. Rocha Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension in Small Farm and Rural Development Economics with UC Agricultural and Natural Resources and a researcher at the Department of Economics at UC Santa Cruz. He joined the university this past year. His work focuses on production, conservation, and rural resilience with a mission […]

This special broadcast features a replay of an interview with Reverend Herb Schmidt, originally recorded on December 11, 2022, in honor of Paul Lee. In this conversation, Herb reflects on his lifelong commitment to service, social justice, and community building, drawing from his work with the United Services Agency and beyond. With warmth, wisdom, and […]

On this show, we spoke with Shelby Graham about the current Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery Exhibition Eduardo Carrillo: Comunidad de Califas. This Virtual Exhibition is happening February 3–April 3, 2021 and showcases the breadth of Eduardo Carrillo’s work, spanning from his early career after his studies at UCLA to his later life living in […]

For the 12/13/2020 Cutting Edge Show, Alan Christy, professor of history at UCSC, Provost of Cowell College, and Director of the Okinawa Memories Initiative, and Cameron Vanderscoff, co-Director Oral History of the the Okinawa Memories Initiative spoke with Nada Miljkovic about their upcoming event, Revisiting The Koza Uprising in Global Perspectives happening December 19th via […]

On Talk of the Bay, host Suki Wessling speaks with local author, artist, and educator Patrice Vecchione about the creative life and how it can help us in these difficult times. We discuss how humans are fundamentally creative, how children express it and then often lose it, and how adults can recapture it. Most of […]