The Random People Show Podcast HPI Media

Keith Walker is Co-Owner, Director of Cinematic Photography, and Videographer at Media Process Group in Chicago.  
Over the years Keith has shot hundreds of broadcast segments for shows like “60 Minutes,” “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” “Dateline,” and “HBO Real Sports,” as well as numerous award-winning documentaries for PBS, NBC and CBS. He has also shot many corporate marketing and educational projects for clients like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Gates Foundation, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Starbucks.
Along with being hailed as one of Oprah's favorite cameramen to work with, he's shot documentaries that include: “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” (Sundance premiere and PBS broadcast), “Mavis!” (The Mavis Staples story, HBO), “No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson” by Steve James (ESPN 30 for 30 series), “A Good Man” and “Forgiving Dr. Mengele” by Bob Hercules and “Catching Hell” by Alex Gibney.
Keith's DP work for “60 Minutes” featuring Oprah Winfrey (about the lynching museum in Alabama) won a 2019 National Emmy Award for Best Newsmagazine Segment.
 

Billy Sullivan is a music producer in Los Angeles, composing, scoring, and producing for over 30 years. He recently produced an album with a group of guys living on Skid Row in downtown L.A. We sit down with Billy to find out what inspired him to do the project and how it's impacted both him and the guys who were involved. Their band is called Mission to Midnight, and you can find their album on iTunes.

We check back with Kerry for a follow-up Zoom interview, a few months after the L.A. shutdown went into effect, to find out how her work is being impacted by the current state of affairs. 

Kerry Morrison is founder and project director for Heart Forward LA.   She responded to this calling in 2019, after spending 22 years leading the business improvement district (BID) in Hollywood, during a time of unparalleled community revitalization and economic growth.  
As a 2016-17 Stanton Fellow, searching for a better way to help the most severely mentally ill people left to languish on our streets, Morrison found her way to Trieste, Italy,  a city recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as model system for providing community-based mental healthcare. 
Working in collaboration with county officials, she helped to build a coalition in Los Angeles County committed to bringing these global best practices to a mental health pilot in Hollywood which, prior to the pandemic, had received funding support from the state’s Mental Health Services Act Innovations fund.   
Morrison is active in homeless policy and nonprofit work in Los Angeles.  She has served as a mayoral appointee to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and currently serves on the HHH Citizen’s Oversight Committee.  Morrison holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Santa Clara University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from USC. She is a graduate of Coro Southern California’s Fellowship Program in Public Affairs.     She write about the Trieste model on her website www.accoglienza.us.  
 

We catch up with Maxx after some of the big craziness of 2020 has hit and we're all trying to sort through it. 

Host Cina Canada and guest co-host Mokotsi Rukundo and talk about music, life, dreams, and a car accident that changed Maxx's outlook on being alive and having purpose.