Archive for July, 2010

Lucien Wulsin

Posted By Zócalo On July 16, 2010

Lucien Wulsin in the green room

Lucien Wulsin is the project director of Insure the Uninsured Project and is working on approaches to expand coverage for uninsured working Californians. He is the author of “California at the Crossroads: Choices for Health Care Reform,” a study on California’s options to redesign its health care system. Before chatting about health reform’s implications for California, he took our Green Room Q&A.

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John Arensmeyer

Posted By Zócalo On July 16, 2010

John Arensmeyer in the green room

John Arensmeyer is the founder and CEO of Small Business Majority, a California-based, national, nonpartisan organization. Prior to starting Small Business Majority, Arensmeyer was the founder and CEO of ACI Interactive, an award-winning international e-commerce company. Before chatting about health reform’s implications for Californians, he took our Green Room Q&A.

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Jan Spencley

Posted By Zócalo On July 16, 2010

Jan Spencley in the green room

Jan Spencley is the Executive Director of San Diegans for Healthcare Coverage. Jan is also a healthcare consultant with over 35 years in the healthcare industry, including 25 years at UCSD Healthcare. For the past 12 years Jan has been a consultant working with hospitals and health systems, medical groups, community health centers, health plans and local government. Before chatting about health reform’s implications for California, she sat down for our Green Room Q&A.

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What Health Reform Means for Californians

Posted By Zócalo On July 15, 2010

Lucien Wulsin, Jan Spencley, John Arensmeyer, Marian Mulkey, and Duke Helfand at Zócalo at NPR West

At 2,500 pages of legislation and even more pages of still unwritten regulation, health reform isn’t easy to comprehend.

But we can be sure of two things, as Duke Helfand, a Los Angeles Times health reporter, explained. “It has great potential to open access to care for millions of people,” he said. “But the criticism is it doesn’t do enough to tackle and address the underlying costs of that care.”

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Salomón Huerta

Posted By Zócalo On July 15, 2010

Salomón Huerta in the green room at MOCA

Salomón Huerta started painting for a practical reason. “There were three sisters born before me, and I was the first boy. But once my brother and my little sister came along, I realized I needed to do something to get attention,” Huerta said. Below, Huerta, whose work has appeared at the Whitney Biennial, the Gagosian Gallery, and LACMA, answers our In The Green Room Q&A.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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