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Women's History Month is an annual observance dedicated to celebrating and recognizing the achievements, contributions, and historical significance of women throughout history. NorCal Public Media acknowledges and celebrates the significant contributions of women in our community to the Bay Area through feature presentations on our stations.
Women's History Month
Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley is a non-profit organization that has been providing Latinas with civic engagement and leadership development in Silicon Valley since 1999. Addressing leadership cultivation through a female and Latino/a cultural lens, the group identifies and heightens awareness about issues that disproportionately affect the Latino/a community through educational panels, interactive sessions, hands-on advocacy, workshops and events.
The Latina Coalition Silicon Valley is a NorCal anchor partner at Open San Jose. For more information visit: https://www.latinacoalition.org
As cooperative extension enologist at UC Davis, Prof. Anita Oberholster brings research and developments from the Department of Viticulture and Enology to the wine industry and continually interacts with its vineyard and winery professionals. She has led research efforts on smoke taint and its mitigation in grapes and wine, winery sanitation and Red Blotch Virus. Anita is being recognized as a Wine World Game Changer at the NorCal Food & Wine Awards Gala. https://norcalpublicmedia.org/support/norcal-public-media-food-and-wine-awards
Roisin and other young activists with Citizens’ Climate Lobby San Mateo take to the streets to spread their message to the community: It’s time to get loud for the climate! For more information: https://citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-take-action/
San Francisco photographer and author Josie Iselin helps audiences look at seaweed in a whole new light. Her writing and art focusing on kelp and other marine algae put her at the forefront of ocean activism. She educates the public and works with scientists and environmental groups who seek to preserve the kelp forests of our Pacific Coast. To learn more visit: www.josieiselin.com
Connect the Bay: Needle Felting Non-traditional sculptor Stephanie Metz has her studio at San Jose's Alameda Artworks collective, and fills it with her fantastic, fun, and sometimes downright weird creations. Working primarily in wool and industrial felt, she states "My artwork grows out of a sense of curiosity, play, and the desire to explore meaning. I’m particularly interested in the tension created when opposing qualities coexist." Soft and prickly, imaginary and real, funny and disorienting: welcome to Stephanie's world! For more information visit https://www.stephaniemetz.com
A female marine ecologist (Sarah) mentors a younger woman (also named Sarah) in what was once a male-dominated field. SARAH SQUARED follows them as they monitor humongous elephant seals on a Northern California beach.
Premiered at the 2022 DocLands Documentary Film Festival.
Presented by Northern California Public Media
Trina Cunningham, a member of the Mountain Maidu tribe in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, continues the wisdom of her elders about fire by teaching a small group of non-native wild land fighters how to do a cultural burn.
Premiered at the 2022 Mill Valley Film Festival.
Presented by Northern California Public Media
The magical Yakuta Poonawalla brings a group of urbanites to plant new foliage in Tunnel Tops, a brand-new park in San Francisco, where many of them have the special experience of planting their first plant.
Awesome Women Environmentalists is presented by Northern California Public Media.
Stepping into Alicia N. Ponzio's North Beach, San Francisco studio is a little like time traveling to a renaissance European workshop. With daylight streaming in through high windows, paintings on easels are punctuated everywhere by sculptures, both finished and in progress. Traditionally trained as a sculptress in Florence, Italy, Alicia specializes in the human figure. She explains the process of creating her recent work "The Builder," made during the pandemic, through which she says she "explored her emotions through form." Special thanks to Grant Phelps, Natasha von Kaenel at The Crucible, and for additional footage by Denise Snaer-Gauder and C. J. Vohs. For more information visit https://www.aliciaponzio.com
