Voices of the Community

In this episode, we feature the voice of Michael Tubbs. We have broken the episode down into two parts. Part one takes place back in the summer of 2016 when I caught up with Michael Tubbs who was at that time the youngest City Council member in Stockton history and one of the youngest elected officials in the United States. Michael was as you heard in Episode 11 from Tama Brisbane working to chang...

In this unedited interview, for episode 12 we feature the voice of Michael Tubbs. The interview was conducted in August of 2016 when Michael Tubbs was running for Mayor 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact: - Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2 - From Bankruptcy to Reinv...

In episode one my associate producer Nick (MaClindon) spoke with Rebekah Fenton about Michael Tubb’s love of the power of the Spoken Word and the metaphor of Stockton’s rise from the ashes of Bankruptcy through Tupac Shakur's monumental poem The Rose That Grew From Concrete. Tama with her husband Aaron founded With Our Words a nonprofit, slam poetry collective that has created safe spaces for youn...

In this unedited episode, we feature the voices of Tama Brisbane a self-described hip-hop midwife and longtime friend of Michael Tubbs who appointed her as the City of Stockton’s first Poet Laureate and the voice of Brandon Leake a spoken word poet who grew up in what Brandon calls the ghettos of South Stockton 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper int...

Multiple generations of South, East, and downtown Stockton residents have suffered the impacts of the City's policies of economic apartheid and corruption. This, in turn, created the deadly outcomes of abject poverty, crime, institutionalized racism, and the community narrative that residents do not feel like they belong in Stockton and are not welcome in the city in which they live. Through Hecto...

In this un-edited episode, we feature the voice of Hector Laura who is the co-founder and executive director of the Reinvent South Stockton Coalition as well as the South Stockton Promise Zone. Hector shares his experience in organizing and developing community programs to address the decades of the City’s policies. 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deepe...

In this episode, we feature the voices of Barb Alberson, Benita Ortez, as well as Horacio Viramontes along with students from the Franklin High School Spanish Club. The first voice is Barb Alberson, the Senior Deputy Director for Policy and Planning at San Joaquin County Public Health Services who shares her insights into the impact of poverty on health outcomes. The second set of voices are Horac...

In this episode we feature the voices of Barb Alberson, Benita Ortez, as well as Horacio Viramontes along with students from the Franklin High School Spanish Club. 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact: - Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2 - From Bankruptcy to Reinventio...

The Summer Success Leadership Academy was co-created in 2010 by Stockton natives Ty-Licia Hooker, and Michael Tubbs. The one-week residential program is free to about 50 minority high school students who learn to design and execute community action plans to address problems facing their communities. The Summer Success Leadership Academy is hosted with the University of the Pacific. Like the Phoeni...

In this episode, we feature the voice of Anthony Rodriguez who is an 8th grade English and Math educator at Marshall Elementary and works with the Summer Success Leadership Academy in leading the mentor training program. Anthony shares his passion for teaching and empowering youth to understand and embrace the socio-economic construct of Stockton’s economic apartheid and to break out of that setup...

As was mentioned by Lange Luntao in Episode Five part of the mission of the community group Reinvent South Stockton Coalition created by then-Councilmember Michael Tubbs is to empower its residents to transform their community through improving, education. A big part of improving the education is through engaging the users of the education system the youth. Our voice in this episode is Jasmine Del...

Stockton was home to the largest community of Filipinos outside of the Philippines and they were segregated to a four-block area called Little Manila in downtown Stockton. In this episode, we feature the voice of Dillon Delvo a second-generation Filipino American and co-founder of Little Manila Rising. Dillion and fellow co-founder the late Dr. Dawn Mabalon formed Little Manila Rising to both pres...

Lange Luntao is the Director of the Stockton Scholars and the Executive Director of the Reinvent Stockton Foundation, a charitable organization that aims to expand opportunity and build hope by attracting resources into Stockton and investing in our city's people. A third-generation teacher who was born and raised in Stockton. Lange returned to Stockton in 2012 to work in public service and educat...

Fred has worked over twenty-five years with STAND developing over 400 units of affordable housing in South Stockton as well as working with residents and the police department to implement and manage community policing. To understand the birth of STAND, one needs to understand the history of the “neighborhood” of Fair-view Terrace. The neighborhood is a seventeen-block area of southeast Stockton,...

Samuel Nuñez, Executive Director of Fathers & Families of San Joaquin is a state and nationally recognized expert in the field of youth development, violence prevention and community organizing for social change. After experiencing first-hand the trauma of community violence and incarceration, Sammy founded Fathers and Families of San Joaquin to be a catalyst for healing, policy change, and co...

In this unedited episode, we feature the voice of Dillon Delvo, co-founder of Little Manila Rising. Dillon shares his passion, insights and organizational work around advocacy, education, arts, and culture as part of Little Manila Rising’s efforts to revitalize the Filipina American community in Stockton. 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our...

In this unedited episode, we feature the voice of Lange Luntao a third-generation teacher who has taught at Aspire Langston Hughes Academy and is a self-proclaimed education nerd. Lange shares his passion, insights and organizational work with youth, parents and the school system. 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact:...

In this unedited episode we feature the voice of Fred Sheil the Administrator of STAND who shares his passion, insights and organization’s work over the past two-plus decades in South Stockton to address, policing, neighborhood revitalization, slumlord abatement, housing, and commercial development. 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part...

Nicholas Hatten is the Founder and Executive Director of the San Joaquin Pride Center (SJCP). A proven leader and agent for change, Hatten has challenged the San Joaquin County and Central Valley to evaluate how it can best serve its LGBT+ community. He forged a collaboration with the Los Angeles Pride Center and other LGBT+ agencies that resulted in a million-dollar Covered California Outreach &a...

Rebekah Fenton a pediatrics resident at Seattle Children’s Hospital and longtime friend of Michael Tubbs, shares her insights into both her support of the creation of the Phoenix Scholars as well as Michael Tubbs’ drive to support access to a college education for low-income first-generation minority high school seniors. Listen to Teenagers: Gun Violence is a Public Health Problem: https://medium....

In this unedited episode, we feature the voice of Jasmine Dellafosse who shares her experience working with Michael Tubbs as well as the Reinvent South Stockton Coalition and the Stockton Schools Initiative in organizing students to address the crime, safety, recreation, health, and the education systems in South Stockton 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive...

In this unedited episode, we feature the voice of Sammy Nunez the Executive Director of Fathers and Families of San Joaquin who shares his story of transformation and work with the community to support struggling community members. 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact: - Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives sy...

This is the unedited interview with Nicholas Hatten the founder and Executive Director of the San Joaquin County Pride Center 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper into our 4-part legacy of impact: Where Art Meets Impact: How creativity drives systemic change. Season 1 and Season 2 From Bankruptcy to Reinvention : The story of Stockton’s resilience.&nb...

These are the unedited interviews with the voices of City of Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs’ Mother Racole Dixon, Grandmother Barbara Nicholson, and Aunt Tasha Dixon on their family legacy of community service as well as Michael Tubbs’ college friend Rebekah Fenton on the founding of the Phoenix Scholars program. 🎧Explore Our Award-Winning Special Series If you enjoyed this episode, dive deeper int...

When we first broadcast this show in 2017 the latest point in time homeless tally was 7,499 people and was fewer than the prior count in 2015 at 7,539 persons. The City of San Francisco estimates that 15% of the homeless population is families and that around 1,700 residents are chronically homeless which is being homeless for one year or more with a disabling condition. The expectation in 2017 wa...