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City Visions, the thinking person's talk radio show, has aired weekly on KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco since 1991. We are inspired by a concern for the evolution of urban society at the dawn of the new millennium. We aim to educate, stimulate, and make positive contributions to the level of political discourse.
Our production team, a talented group of multi-disciplined, public policy minded Bay Area pros, brings a broad perspective to current issues. We believe that "global is local", and strive to maintain a balance between the big picture and the back yard.
City Visions respects the complexity of issues and tries to present as many sides as possible, minimizing polarization. We invite guests who are thoughtful, articulate, and authoritative, and we aim to avoid ideologues from either the right or the left side of the spectrum.
We value your input as much as that of our guests. City Visions Radio counts on listeners to provide a crucial part of dialogue. The audience is encouraged to call in with questions and comments during live shows at 415/841-4134. Or
Susan Britton, Producer
Susie is a lawyer with a background in public interest environmental law and litigation. She began producing for City Visions in 2010 and is honored to work with and learn from the thoughtful, passionate and creative Bay Area residents who appear as guests on the program. When not producing for City Visions, Susie keeps her legal mind active as a volunteer attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and as a trustee of Earthjustice. A graduate of Yale and Columbia Law School, she lives in San Francisco with her husband and two children.
Lisa Denenmark, Producer
Lisa, who holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation, is a longtime media reform activist, cable access producer, media literacy advocate, and educator who works toward integrating emancipatory scholarship with social action, particularly as it relates to self-determination for communities under- represented by mainstream media. Also a playwright, journalist, ethnographer, and editor, she has spent several years working in online news organizations and academia/nonprofits as Deputy Bureau Chief, Managing Editor, Copy Chief, and Web Manager.
She is tickled that she got to be a freelance question writer for Trivial Pursuit, where she wrote stealth anticolonization, multicultural, feminist, and LGBTQI questions, staging public resistance through the production of countermemory and multitextual knowledges that intervene on dominant systems of truth.
Lisa can often be found on a public tennis court trying to develop a monster kick serve or at home designing bumper stickers to raise money for nonprofits.
Matt Fidler, Producer
Matt is a producer, audio engineer and musician working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Involved with public radio since 2004, Matt is the Assistant Producer for the 35-hour per week, syndicated eclectic music program UnderCurrents Radio – currently airing on 101 stations around the country. Matt has contributed to a variety of public radio programs – including Making Contact, Latino USA, A World of Possibilities and Bioneers Radio – as a producer, recordist, composer and editor. When Matt isn’t busy doing various radio projects and producing for City Visions, he is composing and recording with his Frank Zappa-inspired semi-acoustic duo, Billy and The Fid.
Lauren Meltzer, Host
Lauren has been a freelance producer and reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2001. Her work has aired on KQED, Free Speech Radio, KPFA and KALW. She has been with City Visions since 2002. In addition to her radio work, she is a moderator for consumer and user research. Lauren received a masters in education from Harvard University where she focused on the use of technology in education. When Lauren is not facilitating conversations as a host or moderator, she listens to the profound thoughts of her pre-schooler.
Joseph Pace, Host
A physician and current Director of Primary Care Homeless Services for San Francisco's Department of Public Health, Joseph is a native New Yorker who attended Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania before completing his medical training at the University of California, San Francisco. A resident of the Bay Area for more than a decade, he believes strongly in our community's ability to make changes, large and small, and is pleased to work with the City Visions team and KALW to bring new and important topics into the public discourse. He joined City Visions as a producer in April 2006 and became co-host in December 2007.
Judith Sansone, Senior Producer
Judith has been a producer with City Visions Radio since 2002. A health care professional by day, Judith is a lifelong public radio devotee and is grateful for the opportunity to be a small part of the excellent programming KALW offers its listeners. An east coast transplant since 1992, Judith lives in San Francisco with her two daughters.
Victoria Thorp, Producer
Victoria started as a producer with City Visions in 2011. She has a background as a writer and editor, working primarily with education organizations. She was a senior writer at the Fisher Fund Communications Team in San Francisco for four years, where she worked on editorial projects for the KIPP charter schools and Teach For America. Prior to working for the Fisher Fund, Victoria was the executive editor at GreatSchools.net, a nonprofit website that helps parents choose schools. She also has experience as an education researcher at Stanford University and other settings. Victoria has a B.A. in English from Tufts University, and a M.Ed. and secondary teaching credential from UCLA. She lives in Palo Alto with her husband and two daughters.
Rose Levinson
Rose Levinson founded City Visions in 1991 and remained the program’s host and executive producer until 2008. Since leaving City Visions, Rose completed a Ph.D in Cultural Studies and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Jewish Studies and Social Justice Program in the Department of Theology at the University of San Francisco. Rose has published a number of essays focusing on identity issues in contemporary life and is the author, most recently, of Death of a Holy Land: Report from Israeli Fiction.