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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He was recently named 2009 Young Professional of the Year by the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Jose sits on various economic development boards: the Oakland Workforce Investment Board, the Bay Area Business Advisory Board of Directors for the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco, and the OneCalifornia Bank Advisory Board.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Green for All and Van Jones are both based in Oakland, CA (where I live) so I've been following their work for awhile. I'm here to tell ya that Jones will go down in history as one of the visionary voices of our time. He was recently named as a TIME Magazine 2008 Hero of the Environment.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Fabricated societal hierarchies placed on us, such as being labeled “the model minority” — a harmful myth used to divide minority groups and to create the illusion that Asians do not experience the same degrees of hardship as other minorities — have only made it more difficult for our voices to be heard. Photo Credit: Aaron Molo. Kaitlin Lee.

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APRIL 18, 2011

That's why we've included so many voices and perspectives in this book. This image of opening night at the Oakland Museum of California, April 2010, is by photographer Daniel Kokin. But there is a community of thought that goes way back that we can draw on in our own daily practice. And that's where this book comes in.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

People's Grocery Mission: "Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community." People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change. We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'”

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MAY 31, 2011

I was joined by Lori Fogarty (ED of the Oakland Museum of California), Adam Lerner (ED and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), and Beck Tench (Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science).

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JULY 7, 2010

Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. The result is an institution that is impressively committed to audience voices, diversity, and participation--not just in one program, but in the label text, the exhibits, and the overall visitor experience.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

"I would wake up in the middle of the night and still hear their voices. I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. We unite those voices to accelerate change.

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JANUARY 6, 2009

For example, after our conversation, I checked out the volunteer opportunities at one of my local hospitals, the Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland. Another challenge hospital volunteerism faces is regulation , and the number of human resource and legal issues that need to be addressed before a person can volunteer.

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APRIL 25, 2008

AD: I think it is important to start by saying that the Women of Color Resource Center came out of a lot of political thinking and activism of the late '60s and '70s, when women of color really felt that it was important that their voices be heard in a movement that was largely dominated by men, and also white women and white allies.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Jennifer is a certified coach, artist and yogini based in Oakland, California. That's the voice inside your head, or the many voices that say, "I can't," or "You don't have enough degrees," or "How are you going to earn a living with that?" In coaching, we have a term called the "gremlin" or the "saboteur."

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. In October the City of Berkeley soft ordered 40 plug-ins and in December the city of Alameda soft ordered 98.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Last week, we looked at the first section of Visitor Voices , on Talk-backs, and came to the conclusion that comment boards and the like are functionally conversations, and that their design, therefore, should focus on encouraging positive, lively, thoughtful, engaged discussion. Tags: exhibition Book Discussion: Visitor Voices.

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JULY 3, 2006

I just feel really fortunate to be able to be here at POWER, as one organization that creates a space for working class people of color to come together, to find their voice, and then actually to begin exercising that voice in the public domain. SOUL is located here in the Bay area, in Oakland. That's one.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. So our voice makes a difference, and one of the biggest ways that people can help is simply by buying Fair Trade products and asking for them.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We really try and get women from all walks of life to be able to participate in our program, the goal being to provide as many unique voices and opportunities as possible. They come from all different casts, all different religions, and from indigenous backgrounds in Mexico. BB: What is the path that brought you to this work personally?

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MARCH 31, 2010

Regardless of how successful this call was, I always hung up feeling things were incomplete.” - Danielle Thomas, Exhale Talkline Counselor & Pro-Voice Ambassador. Aspen Baker is executive director and founder of Bay Area-based Exhale, the nation's only pro-voice organization dedicated to. Exhale must overcome these perceptions.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes." Shalini Kantayya's 7th Empire Media "The mission of 7th Empire Media is to bring a professional voice to the unheard through media. Photojournalist Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Third, museums as a "place to be heard"--to share your voice, your stories, your interpretation. Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. Then, he moved to museums as a "thing to do"--to touch things, play with interactives.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

--Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. and who gave me the self-confidence to be able to have that voice. I mean, that's what happened to me. I never went to art school.

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JUNE 30, 2007

A blog was really perfect for me, because first of all, it was a very casual voice -- it's not very formal. I want to thank Britt for putting the panel together and just for her work in inspiring women leaders, and getting our voices out there, and recognizing our work - and also to the organizers. We have four initiatives.

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JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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JULY 17, 2008

But there are other times when the message isn't simple, and in those cases, visitor voices can help strategically shape multi-dimensional exhibitions. It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. Or are you looking for new ways to experiment?

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