Have Fun - Do Good

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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JULY 31, 2009

I mean, most recently, I tried to come up with like five or six keys to collaboration, and it goes back to one of my mentors, Jeff Jarvis, who says, "Do what you do best, and link to the rest." I agree, and that's some of the things that I'm learning. Do what you can do best, and collaborate with people who can do the rest, right?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. I feel like there's this wave right now of citizen journalism. I feel like it's in the collective consciousness.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California. Personally, I had lots of meetings with mentors and people I respect to discuss the project I'm trying to get started--a Belgian beer and fries cafe / design incubator focused on visitor participation.

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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. I decided that I was going to reach out to the mentors and the adults who I could learn something from. I decided that, "Hey.

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JUNE 30, 2007

And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. So we started in our small apartment in Oakland, it was about 750 square feet.

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