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Seismic Shift

Jul 26, 2019

Daughter of immigrants, Xiomara Cisneros excelled in her education and, ultimately, in her career despite years of housing insecurity as a child. Today she advocates for housing in the Bay Area. 

Xiomara is policy director at the Bay Area Council. She is active with the YIMBY movement and sits on numerous boards...


Jul 19, 2019

After graduating culinary school, Fernay McPherson was juggling catering gigs and driving buses full-time for San Francisco's MUNI transit.

Today, she's an award-winning chef and owner of Minnie Bell's Soul Movement, a restaurant that has struck a chord in the Bay Area as a leading African American-owned business. 

With...


Jul 12, 2019

After years as a sex worker and educator, Kristy Lin Billuni found herself navigating identities when she left that world and started a practice coaching writers.

She joins us to discuss how she retrofitted her career in the sex industry to a career as a writing coach. As she tells it, those paths have more in common...


Jul 5, 2019

Introducing the first season of Seismic Shift, a new podcast featuring stories of everyday people who have made monumental changes in their work-lives. Listen, laugh, learn and get inspired.

Special thanks to Ryan McGee for use of his composition based on earthquake data.