Previous SMCDFA Zoom Meetings

November 2025

What's next for San Mateo County: Selecting the next Sheriff and the rising cost of child care

Lisa Gauthier, San Mateo County Supervisor for District 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpgrMzRnpyQ

September 2025

San Mateo County "Are you lonely?" campaign

David Canepa, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVh-z0wUK5w

July 2025

Ukraine and the World Order

Igor Tregub is a Berkeley City Council member, and is the Strategic Partnerships Director and Senior Policy Advisor at Reimagine Power, a women-owned boutique consultancy. He is also organizing to bring distributed solar and storage and energy democracy to his homeland of Ukraine.

Nataliia Goshylyk is a lecturer of Ukrainian at the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department at Berkeley.  She is the Director of the nonprofit organization “Centre for Communication Research” (Ukraine) and a Co-founder of the US-based nonprofit "Ukraine Matters".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkctpSRuBQ8

February 2025

Measure A: to fire the sheriff

Deputy Sheriff CarlosTapia will report on how Judge Cordell's investigation of issues raised by deputies and other personnel regarding the performance of current Sheriff Christina Corpus led the Board of Supervisors to put Measure A on the March ballot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkctpSRuBQ8

October 2024

Election Day is Tuesday, November 5th! Are You Ready to Vote?

Have you ever had trouble finding a resource you could trust for ballot information? 

Join us to hear the Pros and Cons on the ten ballot propositions from the non-partisan group League of Women Voters.

https://youtu.be/7Uz9VYWEyhM  

June 2024

Why Rooftop Solar is going off a cliff and how we can get Rooftop Solar Growing Again

Join Solar Rights Alliance Executive Director Dave Rosenfeld for an in-depth review of the utility campaign against rooftop solar, the damage that has been done, and how Californians can fight back and get rooftop solar growing again.

https://youtu.be/rhDrGl8Z3ZE

April 2024

From Redlining to Article 34; A Continuum

Karyl Eldridge will discuss the background to Article 34 and describe how it continues to impact our communities, perpetuating segregation, slowing the production of affordable housing, and increasing its costs. 

https://youtu.be/PE8xZJfthWs

March 2024

CalCare: The Time is Now!

Presenting David Leibowitz, M.D., FACP and Yusra Hussain, M.D., Co-Chairs of the

South Bay Chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP)

https://youtu.be/VQohaqEyMp4

February 2024

The Earth on Your Plate

Mohan Gurunathan is an engineer, entrepreneur, and activist who isan expert on food systems and sustainability. 

https://youtu.be/v4SkYa8CalM

August 2023

The Changing Indigent Defense Landscape: Growth and Improvement of the SMC Private Defender Program

Lisa M. Maguire is recognized as a leader in the defense community, who led the Private Defender Program through the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring that clients in San Mateo County maintained access to their attorneys and to the court.

https://youtu.be/IS_RcNXUDCE

June 2023

The San Mateo County Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Commission 

Paul Bocanegra is co-founder of Re-Evolution and a human rights watch officer of the Children's Division of Human Rights Watch. He is also a part of San Mateo County Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission. His personal story and perspective make him a passionate advocate for improvements to the system and how it impacts children. 

https://youtu.be/uHKJD7DmzZE

May 2023

Josh Abrams, Principal with the Community Planning Collaborative, has been instrumental in working with San Mateo County jurisdictions to navigate and complete their Housing Elements.

https://youtu.be/-wqMUu_3INs

March 2023

Noelia Corzo - San Mateo County Supervisor

https://youtu.be/Vq5so3L5Jzg

February 2023

Ray Mueller - San Mateo County Supervisor

https://youtu.be/7hS4uL-myxQ

January 2023

Dave Rosenfeld of Solar Alliance

https://youtu.be/wKJqLhikhu8

June 2022

Featuring Sally Lieber: former State Assembly woman, and current Mountain View City Council Member

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jz_j8dS3Gs

May 2022

Harvard Professor Marshall Ganz asks SMCDFA - What has sustained you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZy45c0C_wU

March 2022

The Fight for Civil, Voter, and Environmental Justice - Part 2!

California State Senator Josh Becker

https://youtu.be/IEA6Dq4AbMk

February 2022

The Future of Farming is in the Hands of Farmworkers

Joaquin Jimenez - Half Moon Bay City Council, advocate and grassroots organizer

https://youtu.be/orMf5DzlF1Q

January 2022

U.S. Congresswoman Jackie Speier - "A Look Back ... and Forward"

https://youtu.be/ePSUt76c3Gc

October 2021

Climate-change solutions when there is no more time.

Chris Field, PHD, Director at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

https://youtu.be/CpTbUR9QdgQ

May 2021

The Fight for Civil, Voter and Environmental Justice

Josh Becker - California State Senator

https://youtu.be/S5BRIodXMHk

April 2021

Police Reform: Opportunity or Oxymoron?

former State Senator and Current Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian

https://youtu.be/EIUd8K0H9Qg

March 2021

Winning a Green New Deal for California and the Nation!

Adam Bolaños Scow

"https://youtu.be/pwNURAQZYYA

February 2021

Biden Report Card: The First 10 Days

Marshall Dinowitz and Susie Raye

https://youtu.be/42clu3veByk

June 2020

Covid 19 Pandemic and Politics, What Comes Next?

Marshall Dinowitz and Tony Holtzman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgaLPySGy_M

May 2020

Climate Change in San Mateo County; Everyday Actions to Reduce Your Footprint

Diane Bailey of Menlo Park and Lisa Altieri Founder and CEO of Climate Solutions.net

https://youtu.be/irdtKRpjX5I

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