Friday

July 18

StoryCorps | Vanessa + Alex

Alex Lyon interviews Vanessa Banks about growing up in the Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood in San Francisco. She talks about her Mother’s activism growing up and how the death of two kids in the neighborhood resulted in the creation of Youngblood Coleman Park where Vanessa does youth programming. She also discusses her educational experiences, shares about her son, and her activism against the pipeline to prison system.