Women's Spaces Radio Show

This week’s show features our host Elaine B. Holtz announcing the SRJC BSU Black History Month 2023 Award winners and the coming Black American History Celebration this Saturday 2/25 at the Santa Rosa Community Baptist Church. Our guest Shawntel Reece of the NAACP Youth Works and the coming A Journey Through Time Fashion Show, featuring youth ages 1 -21. She is accompanied by her daughter Laila Pi...

This week’s show features Alice Waco, recounting her remarkable path to and in social activism. Susan Lamont assists Alice and also announces the Solidarity Vigil for Tyre Nichols and a similar police killing in our county of Branch Wroth in  2017 at Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa this evening from 6 to 8 PM. Check out the show’s web archive page at the link for the bios of the guests, t...

This week’s radio show (podcast) features our first guest Shawnee Rosin remembering her departed bandmate and singer Honey Rose Conner and announcing the Honey Rose Fest in Sebastopol this Saturday. Our second guest Nancy Wang of the Redwood Empire Chinese Association (RECA) talks about RECA’s mission of sharing Chinese culture with the community and the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit that is being...

This week's show features our guest Ana Diez Garcia, the newly elected Trustee of the Roseland Public School Board. and native of Roseland, who shares her remarkable path from being a concerned young citizen to appointments on commissions to a successful campaign. Learn more at the link to the show's web archive page with links referenced during the show. Take a listen as this is especially inspir...

This week’s podcast features our first guests Anne Warren Clark and Molly Larsen-Shine talking about their roles in producing "A Year with Frog and Toad" currently at 6th St. Playhouse, and our second guest Tina Rogers on the 44th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration via Zoom on January 15th. Check out the link for bios of the guests, links referenced, announcements, this week in He...

This year’s first show is now online. On Monday, January 2, 2023, our host Elaine b. Holtz interviewed Rev. Dr. Patricia Keel on how best to manifest New Year’s Resolutions. See the web archive page for this show at the link for more information on the bio of the guest, the show’s segments, this week in Herstory, links referenced, and the playlist.  http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WS...

This week’s radio show/podcast features Elaine’s comments on Hanukkah and guest Mary Norman who shares her insights on two prominent women in the birthing of Christianity. Listen to the show at your convenience on the show’s webpage. If you would like the show to appear in you podcast app library, you can subscribe at links on the web page. Wishing you Happy Holidays of Peace and Light. https://ww...

This week’s radio show had a snafu with our telephone connection, so our intended conversation with guest Mary Norman will be postponed until next week. Instead, Elaine presents her commentary and reading of her poetry on peace, mixed in with songs of this nature. Check out the show’s web page for copies of the poetry she read, this week in Herstory, announcements, links referenced and the playlis...

This week’s radio show features guest, DA Jill Ravitch, looking back on her 3 terms served as the first woman elected to DA in our county. Also joining us is Shekeyna Black, updating us on the Peace and Justice Center. She also announces the annual SOFA Winterblast happening this coming Saturday evening, complete with their famed sofa parade. Shekeyna lets us know that the play “Scrooge in Love” i...

This week’s radio show features our first guest Laura Tredinnick, President of the Healdsburg Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) on Changing Lives, and our second guest Katrina Phillips, Chair of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights (CHR). The AAUW just celebrated their 141st anniversary of their founding and continue to advocate for equity for women and girls....

This week's radio show features our guest Amie Windsor, Publisher of the Sonoma County Gazette, talking about local citizen journalism. Visit the show's webpage for the guest's bio, descriptions of the segments, this week in Herstory, Announcements, links referenced, and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA221121.html

This week's radio show features our guest Tina Swithin, author of Divorcing a Narcissist (series), founder of One Mom's Battle and founder of the Family Court Awareness Month, talking about the danger children of divorced parents face with an abusive parent and the failures resulting from costly Family Court not placing children safety as top priority. Tina is an example of an ordinary woman doing...

This week's radio show features Kelsey Vero and D'Ayona Jerome talking about their art protest on Saturday October 22nd in alliance with the National Day of Protest of Police Brutality and the delay in the independent review of IOLERO of the Sheriff deputy killing of David Pelaez Chavez, a farmworker because of the compromise of Measure P between the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors and the Depu...

This week's show featured Susan Campbell, PhD, talking about her new book, "From Triggered to Tranquil: How Self-Compassion and Mindful Presence Can Transform Relationship Conflicts and Heal Childhood Wounds." Susan is an acclaimed relationship coach. Her talk certainly brought triggers to mind for both Elaine and Ken. Check out this show's archive web page for links referenced, the bio of the gue...

For this week we feature Susan Lamont as our guest. Susan organized the local rally in Santa Rosa last Saturday October 15th of a national action to Defuse Nuclear War. She, Ken, and our host Elaine read Elaine's poem, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," and we play songs dealing with this theme of War is Not the Answer. Check out this show's webpage for links referenced during the show, announceme...

Our first guests Marina Jurema and Becky Montgomery talk about organizing their first rally, the Women's Wave last Saturday in Santa Rosa, and our second guest Jasmine Palmer shares what it took to save Athena House treatment center for women with substance abuse problems from closing. Check out the show's webpage for to read reports on the show segments, bios of the guests, announcements of comin...

This week’s show features guest Sarah Kerlow, a survivor of Domestic Violence and advocate for the passing of Piqui’s Law, Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence (SB616), in California, that addresses reform of the Family Court in Child Custody and Domestic Violence that endangers and even kills children. Listen to the show to hear Sarah’s personal experience with Family Court, the high expens...

Our guest this week is the local columnist of the Press Democrat, Kerry Benefield, who talks about the challenges and rewards of journalism and the importance of local news. Check out the link for the bio of the guest, description of show segments, announcements, referenced links, this week in Herstory and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA22/WSA220919.html

The show features our first guest Erin Solorio who plays Sally Bowles in the current production of Cabaret at the 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA.  Our second segment guests Kimi Barbosa and Ellen Obstler of the North Bay Organizing Project's Police Accountability Task Force share a short history of IOLERO (Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach) and the new enforcem...

This week's radio show features our first guest Amy Granahan, announcing the Apple-y Ever After Festival/Fundraiser for and at the Arlene Francis Center this Saturday, Noon to 11 pm. The links for tickets are on this show's web page.  Our second guest is Major (Ret.) Renee Marie sharing the challenges of being a woman in the Army and her finding her mission of placing Peace Poles for Schools,...

This week's radio show  features our guest Rosita Stevens-Holsey, co-author of a new book on her aunt, the attorney, Civil Rights and Women’s Rights activist, poet, the first woman ordained as an Episcopal priest, and one of the co-founders of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Intimate insights on the life of Pauli Murray are shared by her niece Rosita. Check o...

This week's show celebrates Women's Equality Day (August 26th) with our guest Molly Murphy MacGregor of the National Women's History Alliance sharing its history and that of the Equal Rights Amendment awaiting Congressional OK. Molly emphasizes to get out the vote for leaders that support women's rights. See this show's unique web archive page for descriptions of the show segments, the bio of the...

For this week's show we featured guest Shekeyna Black announcing the Raise the Roof Festival and Fundraiser on this Saturday, August 13th, at the Monte Rio Amphitheater from noon to 8 pm for the Peace & Justice Center's new roof. Elaine and Ken will be going and hope to see you there! Our second guest was Debbie MacKay sharing some history of the League of Women Voters, notice of upcoming foru...

This week's show features guest co-author Sherry Glaser on her and Kym Trippsmith's new “Mama’s First Chicktionary, Taking the Dick our of Dictionary” . Join us for a seriously delightful casting of spellings, as major surgery is done on bringing "wumun" back into the English lexicon. Sherry ends the show with a tarot reading from a deck cut by our host Elaine. Check out the link for the bio of th...

This week's radio show features guest Nancy Pemberton of the Committee for Law Enforcement Accountability Now (CLEAN) on the Sonoma County Supervisors Closed-Doors Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Deputy Sheriff Association (DSA) that weakens the 2020 Measure P powers given to the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO for Sheriff accountability. It is a mouthf...