Rae holds a master’s degree in professional writing and spent 27 years teaching college English. Rae has written four books for young people including a “Nancy Drew” mystery, as well as a college reader, “Rites of Passage,” and a poetry chapbook, “The Weight of Roses.” Rae has written essays that have appeared in The Sacramento Bee, Outside California, Tahoe Quarterly and Sacramento Magazine. She has appeared on San Francisco NPR station KQED. Rae lives in the Sierra foothills.
RANDY JURADO ERTLL is an award winning published author, educator, and newspaper columnist. He has also served as executive director for well-established, prominent, non-profit organizations. Ertll served as a communications director for a Congressional member on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous opinion columns in newspapers and magazines such as the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, La Opinión, Daily News, La Prensa Grafica, San Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, Sacramento Bee, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Houston Chronicle, The Progressive and The American Interest magazines. He has been interviewed by networks such as NPR, CNN, PBS, Univisión, and Telemundo.
REBECCA D. COSTA, author “On the Verge” and “The Watchman’s Rattle”. So begins Rebecca Costa’s much-awaited exploration of foresight: “the crowning achievement of human ambition.” According to Costa, advances in Big Data, predictive analytics, genomics, artificial intelligence, and other breakthroughs have made it possible to pinpoint future results with mind-blowing accuracy- cracking the door to what Costa calls predaptation: the ability to adapt before the fact. Never before has the information needed to avert danger, get the jump ahead of others, and prepare for the inevitable been so clearly within grasp. Costa’s unique socialbiological perspective, combined with her ability to blend humor, breaking science, and insightful personal stories, distinguishes her as one of the most important female thought leaders of our time.
Thelma T Reyna and Edward Vidaurre both share the trials of writing poetry and provide advice to others who wnat to publish their poetry and stories.
Michael Booker highlights how COVID 19 is impacting the players and coaches as they move through the 2020 season.
Mara Adamitz Scrupe is a visual artist and poet whose art exhibitions have received wide critical acclaim, with permanent commissions of her environmental public art projects in the U.S., Europe and China. Her essays and critical reviews have been published in magazines and periodicals and reprinted in art history volumes. “My art practice employs environmentally proactive strategies,” she says. “Using my knowledge of botany, horticulture and alternative energy technologies, I attempt to call attention to and help save native and heirloom plants. For recent site projects I’ve located, identified, and rescued hundreds of important plants growing on lands slated for development. Mara has taught and lectured nationally and internationally. She teaches and mentors students studying a range of disciplines across the University’s curricula including visual art, design, writing, dance, music and theater.
Michael Booker highlights how COVID 19 is impacting the players and coaches as they move through the 2020 season.
Mary Langer Thompson’s articles, short stories, and poetry appear in various journals and anthologies. Dr. Thompson is a contributor to Women and Poetry: Tips on Writing, Teaching and Publishing by Successful Women Poets; and was the 2012 Senior Poet Laureate of California. A retired principal and English teacher, she now writes full time in Apple Valley, California where she received the Jack London Award in 2019 from the High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club.
The main focus of the program serie in 2021 will focus on the meaning and outcomes of the expansion and reliance of technology and its impact on the future of work.
Monthly report on the impact of Covid 19 on football players
Much of the programming in 2021 will focus on the meaning and outcomes of the expansion and reliance of technology and its impact on the future of work.
Maija Rhee Devine highlights her autobiographical book "The Voices of Heaven": One husband;two wives; and one daughter's struggle to become ten times better than a boy.
Poets Leaders reading their poems highlighted in the book "When the Vrus Came Calling: Covid 19 Strikes America"
A ground-breaking anthology of 45 distinguished American contemporary poets and prose writers, written in real time in the first half of the historic, devastating coronavirus COVID-19 invasion of America in 2020. In heart-wrenching, wide-eyed observations, firsthand events, tragedies, and reflections, these top authors document for us the horrors, grief, and heroism of friends, family, neighbors as we watched the disease unfold. Here are moments of hope and togetherness as well, seeking respite and balms. This gathering of Poets Laureate, national award winners, poet leaders, essayists, academics, and short fiction writers is a collection to treasure and a touchstone for generations to com
In 1978 there was the Jamstown murder-suicide of 918 followers of Jones. 120 were students and 12 were students. Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral remember and document the students they had in San Francisco that went to Jonestown and never returned.
Michael Booker has been involved with football as a player and coach for more than 50 years. He recently retired as a high school educator and continues to coach high school leagues. He moved from the Southern California area to a Hawaiian island yet he stays current on the world of high school/ college football as well as the professional lecel
A indepth discussion of how advances in AI and robotics can disrupt the present and future job opportunities.
Thelma T Reyna invites members of the Lake Como Poets to share their work
Kate Wedekind grew up on a farm in Butler, IL. Growing up, she was involved in FFA, 4-H, and spent a lot of her free time showing Spot hogs. She is a 2006 graduate of Hillsboro High School in Illinois, a 2008 graduate of the Lincoln Land Community College agriculture department, and a 2010 graduate of Western Illinois University with a B.S. in Agriculture Education. She is currently employed at Pawnee JR/SR High School as the Industrial Arts teacher. Throughout her career, she's worked in three different school districts as an agriculture teacher, but Pawnee is her first industrial arts position.