Join Rachel Michelle Fernandes, mostly functional misfit and mental health advocate for part 2 of a discussion about identity and what it’s like to cross cultural boundaries. Rachel talks with two San Diego and Tijuana based activists who grew up living the Transborder experience and to a Jamaican born psychologist who talks about her
The AjA Project is a local nonprofit providing photography-based programming to transform the lives of youth and communities by putting youth at the heart of driving social justice efforts in their own communities. On the show today is AjA Project Teaching Artist, Rizzhel Javier and Program Coordinator and Teaching Artist, Cat Coppenrath.
San Diego County CA— The San Diego Women’s Foundation (SDWF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and inspiring women to engage in collective philanthropy, raised over $2,000 for The AjA Project. The funds were raised at the Foundation’s annual “Holiday Party with a Purpose” celebration. The members-only party was hosted by SDWF board member
On Sunday morning, Edsel Ariel Benitez got a familiar call from his boss, urging him to come into work and relieve the other cook at the San Diego KFC. For the 19-year-old community college student, who was born in San Diego and lives in Tijuana, picking up a shift means navigating the largest land
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we are featuring one recent Humanities for All grantee’s project, Border Click. Josemar Gonzalez, co-founder of Border Click, shares more about this project that connects two nations (Tijuana and San Diego) through art and conversation. What was your goal for Border Click? The goal of Border Click was to create a digital living archive
"BorderClick" es una iniciativa de archivo de imágenes en su mayoría captadas por jóvenes que residen en México y estudian o trabajan en Estados Unidos, algunas de las cuales se han incluido en una exhibición inaugurada recientemente en la ciudad californiana. El proyecto digital muestra las historias de quienes cada día se levantan temprano
Click: Tijuana pedestrians making their way to the U.S. border through the early morning darkness. Click: A driver at the wheel of her car, surrounded by a vehicles pointed north toward the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Click: A pair of trolley trains forming red blurs as they carry border crossers to their destinations. These are moments in the
SAN DIEGO — Eighteen-year-old Vanessa Flores still remembers stumbling over her words on her second day at San Diego City College (SDCC) last fall when the Border Patrol agent in San Ysidro, a district in San Diego just north of the border, asked her where she was going. At first she thought about saying
Photographer Edward Steichen once said, “Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.” Photographs speak to our emotions and allow us to tell our story by showing others how we interpret the world. For this reason, photography is a powerful driver of social change and individual growth – two major components of The
