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Interviews of musical artists

This is a series of dialogues between my high school baseball coach and long time mentor from afar, Steve Simoes. Coach Simoes earned the trust and respect of every player on his team by always saying what might be easier not to and observing things that flew over others' heads. When I started teaching, he gave me advice that I still hold near and dear to me, which was teach to your own personality and have as many one on one conversations as you can.

This is a series of interviews I recorded with parent liaisons, teaching and learning specialists, school counselors, teachers and students to experiment with podcasting for a nuclear audience. I think the conversations are important and they are also a way to get to know movers and shakers inside the school district. While they are focused on Pleasanton schools, it was an independent project I put together without any oversight.

A series of conversations between myself and former students and colleagues of mine at City Arts and Tech HS in San Francisco. The conversations take on a variety of topics, from being an empath to artistic conventions to race, identity and social media. If nothing else, they showcase the amazing network of talent that flourished in that community and the struggles that define us.

This is a series of conversations between former students and colleagues of mine at Oakland's Youth Empowerment School, which was closed down in 2011 by OUSD. The conversations are meant to be personal while also drawing to the surface many of the challenges that lay under the banner term of systemic racism. This is not your made for Hollywood movie, this is a deeper dive into dissecting the blueprint of a machine that's designed to fail.