Gender Equity in All the Categories – Today

Nancy Cohen president and founder, and Mona Shah vice president of external affairs of the recently established Gender Equity Policy Institute, present a new report, “Failing the Climate Justice Test; An Analysis of CA’s Projected Climate Resilience Funding and It’s Affect on Californians by Race Region and Gender.” Two tool-belts take on the pile of debris on today’s show.
Music credits: The Comet is Coming, “New Age,” Channel The Spirits – album; Emancipator, “Labyrinth,” Mountain of Memory – album. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/1682/CohenShahPod7-5-21.mp3

National Women’s Political Caucus; Multi-Partisan/Multi-Tasking AND Assemblywoman Petrie-Norris Speaks/Governs

Karriann Farrell Hinds, President of the National Women’s Political Caucus of California, a multi-partisan organization, brings us from the multi-partisan good old days of her organization’s founding – to the present. Everything is in play. In the second segment (minute 31:47), CA Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, representing District 47: Irvine and nearby cities, reflects on the latest legislative session, her first. More of everything on the table: from the committee rooms, to townhalls, to the Assembly floor, back to the campaign season.

Meet Ari Grayson, (D) Candidate for CA State Senate Dist. 37

For the entire hour, CA State Senate candidate Dr. Ari Grayson, running as a Democrat in the 37th District, brings his design and psychology background to bear on public policy. He is challenging incumbent John Moorlach, a certified public accountant and former Orange County office holder, who won the special election in March of 2015, when Mimi Walters vacated that seat when she was elected to the US Congress the previous fall. Senator John Moorlach, will appear on this program on May 31st, availing all of us the chance to get familiar with both candidates who will advance to the general election as they are the only two candidates who have filed to run for this office.