Tag Archives: Pauline Merry

Four Women on an Historic Campaign

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With recent news cycles mimicking a hurricane season; one storm after the next, building peaking, and subsiding, we turned the mic over to four women to process how the latest, unprecedented news is landing for them, 105 days before the election Nov 5th. For the full hour we heard from Pauline Merry, Yolanda Robinson, Jane Wishon, and Olivia Fu for their reflections. Pauline Merry, a retired higher education administrator appeared earlier about her memoir, Growing Up in the Ville in St. Louis Missouri; Yolanda Robinson is also a retired professional a friend and colleague of Pauli’s, and a veteran of election politics in OC; Jane Wishon, a builder of many LA area Democratic organizations is currently Co-Chair of Organizational Development and Chartering Committee at LA Co Democratic Party and Co-chair of the CA Democratic Credentials Committee; and Olivia Fu, former co-editor of The Express at San Juan Hills High School, previously appeared on this show about her voting registration work in southern OC high schools as an anti- gun violence activist, graduated from Stanford and now a Tom Ford Philanthropy Fellow at North Star Fund.

Music credits: Chimora, “Africano Americano,” Sounds of Africa – album; A. Ray Fuller, “Work to Do,” The Weeper – album.

http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/984/FuMerryRobinsonWishon7-23-24.mp3

Power, Truth, and Joy in Dialogue – Pauline Merry and Adam Smyer

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Local activist, artist, and retired higher education administrator Pauline Merry, and Oakland attorney and writer Adam Smyer return to the show – this time on the same program, for a dialogue on the arc of progress in the lives of Black Americans. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/984/MerrySmyerShow2-28-23.mp3

This bonus segment covers their shared craft of writing. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/984/MerrySmyer2-28-23Pod2.mp3

Music credits: Chimora, “Africano Americano,” Sounds of Africa – album; Corcoran Holt, “14th Street Bounce,” The Mecca – album.

Freeing Up CA Water Brain Trust AND “Growing Up in the Ville in St. Louis, MO”

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Today our guests run the gamut of water policy to Black community. We start with Max Gomberg, formerly staff to the CA State Water Quality Resources Control Board, now independent consultant on water affordability and resilience. With his decades of experience in his seasoned takes on water management, we fly at roughly 50,000 feet, considering the consequential water policy decisions being made on all levels of government.

In the second segment (minute 30:00) local activist and retired higher education administrator Pauline Merry brings her new autobiography, Growing Up in the Ville, in St Louis Missouri, recently released by Great Tales Told Well Publishing. With this genre of Black history, is an uncanny education on lives lived in all kinds of communities. Music credits: Chimora, “African Americano,” Sounds of Africa- album; Bill Beach, “Agua de Beber,” Letting Go – album; McCoy Tyner, “Illuminations,” Illuminations – album.

http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/984/GombergMerry1-24-23.mp3