Wanda's Picks Special

Former teacher Jonathan Dearmen is profiled in Vanessa Roth's new film: American Teacher. Dearman is a lifelong San Francisco resident who has worked in real estate and education for the past twenty years. As a lifelong learner and educator, Jonathan has worked on education non-profits and school boards while running his family-owned real estate business since leaving the teaching profession in 2002. Jonathan is now looking to combine two of his passions, education and music, in a community project for young people in his neighborhood. Denizen Kane is a poet and musician born and raised in Tree City. He is one of the founders of I Was Born With Two Tongues (1998-2003), an Asian American spoken word quartet and Typical Cats, a Chicago-based hip hop collective.  His recorded works include LPs with Two Tongues (Broken Speak, AIR Records 1999) and Typical Cats (Typical Cats, G4 2000; Civil Service G4 2004) and solo albums (Tree City Legends Vol. 1, G4 2002; Vol. 2, G4 2005; Brother Min’s Journey to the West, TTB 2009).  His poetry has been featured in the Asian Pacific American Journal, the Columbia Review, Echoes upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, and Screaming Monkeys, and on three seasons of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam.  Ethel Long-Scott, Executive Director, Women's Economic Agenda Project. For more than 40 years, in jobs as varied as grassroots community organizer, social issues advocate, political campaign strategist and non-profit CEO, I have pushed, poked, prodded and worked cooperatively with the political, economic and civic establishments on a mission to increase social and economic justice.