Then There's California State Senators...in Conversation About California!

Long Beach State Senator Lena Gonzalez talks about her legislative effort to further bridge the chronic digital divide affecting California's families, her new, historic appointment as chair of the Senate Transportation Committee...and hoe she 'waits' for unity to bridge California's other social, racial and economic divides.

State Senator Connie Leyva, Chair of the Senate Education Committee and CA Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, discuss the complicated and evolving dynamics surrounding public school closures and online learning during the COVID pandemic, and the efforts being made to help educators, parents and students navigate the educational and logistical challenges.

State Senator Maria Elena Durazo, the new Chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus, talks about public policy, health, and social justice priorities for our Latinx communities in 2021.

As Bay Area State Senator Jerry Hill prepares to leave the legislature because of term limits, he reflects on his extraordinary 30-year career in politics on the state and local level, and how injustice, harm to human beings and corporate malfeasance were the catalyst for his policies of consumer protection and business & government integrity.

On the 2nd anniversary of the devastating Woolsey Fire in Malibu, in November, 2018, State Senator Henry Stern, the Chair of the Senate Natural Resources Committee, candidly reflects on the emotional and psychological impact of evacuating and surviving a wildfire, and explains how the record-break wildfires of 2020 remind CA about the work still to be done to confront the economic and environmental consequences of climate change,

Senate Hannah-Beth Jackson discusses the impact the COVID pandemic and the current economic/employment crises are particularly having on working women, working moms, stay-at-home moms...and women of color in all of those categories - as well as the burden it places on relationships and the emotional health of families.