Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Do you feel that democracy is eroding? Come be inspired by creators and activists who haven’t given up! Shizue Seigel hosts. Readers include:
James Cagney, prize-winning poet and author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness
Tara Dorabji, documentary filmmaker and author of Call Her Freedom
Chloe Gentile-Montgomery, ethnic studies educator and author of Rustlings of the Spirit
Georgina Marie Guardado, Lake County Poet Laureate and Board President of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
Susan Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere
Tehmina Khan, teacher of Poetry for the People at City College of San Francisco
Jason Santiago LaCour, Santa Cruz slam poet
Tureeda Mikell, author of The Body: Oracle of Memory and Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine
Shizue Seigel, director of Write Now! SF Bay and author of Courting a Man Who Doesn’t Talk
Betty Shamieh, American playwright, author of Too Soon, screenwriter and actor of Palestinian descent
Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate and curator of the Last Supper Party reading series
Kelechi Ubozoh, mental health advocate and co-editor of We’ve Been Too Patient
Beulah Vega, poet and producer of the Santa Rosa theater series Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks
Brenda Yeager, Lake County Poet Laureate
Do you feel that democracy is eroding? Come be inspired by creators and activists who haven’t given up! Shizue Seigel hosts. Readers include:
James Cagney, prize-winning poet and author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory and Martian: The Saint of Loneliness
Tara Dorabji, documentary filmmaker and author of Call Her Freedom
Chloe Gentile-Montgomery, ethnic studies educator and author of Rustlings of the Spirit
Georgina Marie Guardado, Lake County Poet Laureate and Board President of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference
Susan Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere
Tehmina Khan, teacher of Poetry for the People at City College of San Francisco
Jason Santiago LaCour, Santa Cruz slam poet
Tureeda Mikell, author of The Body: Oracle of Memory and Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine
Shizue Seigel, director of Write Now! SF Bay and author of Courting a Man Who Doesn’t Talk
Betty Shamieh, American playwright, author of Too Soon, screenwriter and actor of Palestinian descent
Kimi Sugioka, Alameda Poet Laureate and curator of the Last Supper Party reading series
Kelechi Ubozoh, mental health advocate and co-editor of We’ve Been Too Patient
Beulah Vega, poet and producer of the Santa Rosa theater series Heroines, Harpies, and Harlots – A Woman Speaks
Brenda Yeager, Lake County Poet Laureate
