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SideBar: Optimism In Action - Conversations with Community Leaders Inspiring Positive Change

SideBar: Optimism In Action - Conversations with Community Leaders Inspiring Positive Change

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Season three of SideBar: Optimism in Action features nonprofit leaders, advocates, and community members who represent extraordinary work that is improving the humanitarian, public policy, and charitable needs of our local, national, and global communities. We are very excited to join the digital programming of KAZU 90.3. KAZU is the NPR affiliate for the Monterey, Salinas, and Santa Cruz region. We release new episodes on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of every month.

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Episodes
  • It Takes an Entire Community to Combat Homelessness with Roxanne Wilson

    It Takes an Entire Community to Combat Homelessness with Roxanne Wilson
    Jan 19 2026

    As Director of Monterey County Homeless Services Program, Roxanne Wilson is a seasoned community leader with over a decade of dedicated service to housing justice and homelessness reduction. She leads the county's efforts to integrate policy, planning, and partnerships across governmental and nonprofit sectors by overseeing strategic initiatives and homeless response systems.
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    29 mins
  • Inspiring Optimism as a Vision for the Future

    Inspiring Optimism as a Vision for the Future
    Jan 5 2026
    SideBar: Optimism in Action podcast, a collaboration of KAZU 90.3 and Monterey College of Law, welcomes Bill Burke, founder of The Optimism Institute and host of Blue Sky podcast. Burke transitioned to promoting optimism in 2022 after an extensive media and sports career as an executive, writer, and producer. Bill is a lifelong optimist and launched The Optimism Institute with a mission to inspire people with an optimistic, hopeful vision of the world and its future.
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    28 mins
  • Designing the Future of Higher Education with Kathleen deLaski

    Designing the Future of Higher Education with Kathleen deLaski
    Dec 15 2025

    Kathleen deLaski is at the forefront of designing higher education for the 21st century. She founded Education Design Lab to help colleges begin the journey to reimagine higher education toward the future of work and she manages the deLaski Family Foundation, a 25-year grant maker in education reform. In her book, Who Needs College Anymore: Imagining a Future Where Degrees Won’t Matter, Kathleen describes a multiple educational pathways through the learners lifecycle to help them find success.
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    29 mins
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