Exactly one year ago you could hear the Arc of History bending thunderously as Democratic Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris leapt onto the stage inside Denver’s Manual High School gymnasium — known locally as the Thunderdome. As only the second Black woman ever to run for President, you could feel and…

A century before Shakira or Beyoncé or Cardi B , there was Josephine Baker. “I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more,” Josephine Baker declared as the only Black female officially invited to speak at the legendary 1963 March on Washington. “But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get…

In 2005 I taught a Campus Abroad in Paris for fifty students from California’s Silicon Valley. Ever since then, I’ve dreamed of turning those informal lectures into articles and books about how Americans in Paris Changed the World. 15 years, a dozen Paris research trips, and 1000 draft pages later…

Thirty years ago in 1990, my Stanford dissertation described the implicit racism embodied in John Muir’s writing in endless painful academic detail. Complete with footnotes. It was not a welcome message, then or now. So in July 2020 when national news outlets finally began publishing first-hand accounts of fierce confrontations…

To support the Global Climate Strike Sept 20–27, our colleges’ Opening Day faculty/staff activities kicked off with a surpise Die-In — in solidarity with the Global Poor, the Global South, women and People of Color who bear the brunt of the climate crisis. With over 500 professional educators looking on…

For a decade, the Foothill College Hypocenter for a Sustainable Future has remained “A Center without a Center” — both by necessity and by choice. Here’s three reasons why: Reason #1: We Have No Funding or Facilities Operating as an ad hoc, volunteer educational hyper-organization with zero funding or direct institutional support (so far), our hypocenter has still…

HypoCenter History Highlights: 2010: Launch Party featuring Stanford d-school Director David Kelly. 2011: One Book/One Community, a campus-wide reading collaboration, tackles the Water Issue. 2012: Stanford Design School Tour and Talk: students, faculty, and staff tour the Stanford Design School as personal guests of Director David Kelly. 2013: Earth Justice Day — a all-day all-campus extravaganza, draws huge campus crowds.

Mission Statement As a dynamic ad-hoc group of environmental activists and educators, our shared vision is to catalyze inspirational intersectional interdisciplinary curriculum and events, and to catalyze campus creativity, and conversations concerning sustainability on the Foothill College campus — and beyond. Foothill College Campus Allies The following Foothill Faculty and Staff continue to volunteer their time…

As I write, a brand new USA Today headline screams “Could Hurricane Dorian Become Category 6?” Regardless of the official answer, category-busting, off-the-scale superstorms have become the new normal. Exactly as USA Today explains it, “No, there is no higher measure, although Dorian has already become the strongest hurricane in…