How + Why

Documenting process and purpose, this interdisciplinary series is an educational resource provided to discuss the evolution of visual, performing, and literary arts at the intersection of technology, science, history, and health.

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“I think when you live in a place where there are multiple perspectives, even ones you don't agree with, or you vehemently disagree with, you still learn more, you sharpen yourself as a problem solver.”

Lindsey Spindle and Erin Samueli
Adjust Accordingly, EP481

"Living in solidarity, it's looking at your neighbors and the people around you and seeing what is it that we need to do together or what is it that we don't understand about each other, and what happens when we do come together in solidarity to make the community better."

Tracy La
Adjust Accordingly, EP479

“Pop culture oftentimes has been a vehicle to help us imagine a better future or a worse future, but also has been a vehicle to Trojan Horse, I think, more diversity, which is why cultural stories are also so threatening to people right now, and why you're seeing books being banned, because that's the power of stories.”

Wajahat Ali
Adjust Accordingly, EP478

"I would say that choosing to be a writer is the one decision I've never regretted. It makes you immeasurably rich. I think it's deepened my relationships, it's helped me to read the world, it's helped me to feel full in a way that I can't imagine I would be if I didn't have writing, but paying the bills is still a challenge."

Pico Iyer
How + Why, EP237

“I was trying to think of how-- Because I'm studying social media now in school, I was trying to think of how you take like the narrative of the Twitter feed, which is a narrative different from anything we've seen before and how do you bottle that and turn that into something that resembles a more traditional piece of media. What are the elements of social media and of the Twitter feed that you can translate?”

Jonny Sun
How + Why, EP175

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Adjust Accordingly

Conversations highlighting the challenges, opportunities, and strategies for confronting issues in our communities while collectively progressing toward a more equitable future.

Produced with Orange County Grantmakers with support from Orange County Community Foundation.

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The Grammar

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Produced in partnership with Ingram Micro and Chapman University.

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Sounds + Stories

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Special episodes are filmed and edited into a short documentary compilation with the audio from each episode recorded and archived for podcast.

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This program is an in-depth conversation about history, inspiration, and community, and how these elements relate to cooking and serving hungry people in this busy industry.

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Eichler Sessions

A series of conversations with creative pioneers hosted in historic Eichler homes. During the early 1950s, award-winning homebuilder Joseph Eichler influenced the face of American architecture by developing distinctive residential subdivisions of Mid-Century modern style tract housing. Between 1949 and 1966, Eichler built over 11,000 homes throughout California including Los Angeles, Orange County, Palm Springs, and San Francisco.

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