Upcoming Peninsula College Fund event with Joan Baez

 

Catherine Crystal Foster, Executive Director of The Peninsula College Fund, and Shayla Bunch, a participant in the Fund’s program, talk about the origins and operation of this organization, how it’s helped Shayla, and about the March 2^nd benefit concert featuring Joan Baez and Bella Sorella, recorded from Redwood City, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, on February 11, 2013

 

LWVC Initiative and Referendum Study

Helen Hutchison, League of Women Voters of California Board Liaison with that group’s Initiative and Referendum Study, talks about their grassroots efforts to re-consider the proper form and role of these kinds of citizen involvement in the governance process, recorded from Northern California on February 8, 2013.

 

Dr. Matthew Porteus on genetically editing T-cell DNA to fight HIV/AIDS

Dr. Matthew Porteus, associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford Medical School and a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, talks with Etopia News host Marc Strassman about using genetic engineering techniques to modify T-cells so that they will be immune to infection by HIV, recorded from Stanford, California, on January 30, 2013.