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Tea with Tamara: Drew Burgess, art faculty at College of Alameda

Tamara Copes, Columnist February 21, 2024

Drew Burgess has been in love with art since the wee days of drawing at his parents’ kitchen table in San Jose, California. To Burgess, art is the lens through which he views life, and he explores...

Tea with Tamara: Mark Rauzon, biogeographer and Laney Instructor

Tea with Tamara: Mark Rauzon, biogeographer and Laney Instructor

Tamara Copes, Columnist December 11, 2023
Biogeographer Mark Rauzon, armed with a cup of tea, sits down with me to chat from his home in Oakland, CA.
Tea With Tamara: Lily Leung, Laney Library Technician II

Tea With Tamara: Lily Leung, Laney Library Technician II

Tamara Copes, Columnist November 22, 2023
Lily Leung, Library Technician II and San Francisco native shares her outlook on life, and a bit of tea.

Changing Your Brain & Befriending Your Nervous System

My Recommended Resources (mostly budget-friendly)
Thayer Robins, Staff Writer June 4, 2019

It is a source of unending sadness to me that many of those struggling every day with brain and nervous system conditions believe help is out of reach. Often they are told they need money they don’t...

Finding balance in your polyvagal nervous system

Finding balance in your polyvagal nervous system

Why couldn’t I fight back? It could be dorsal vagal
Thayer Robins, Staff Writer March 14, 2019

PART 4 of 6 Our criminal justice system doesn’t understand the human nervous system. One assumption I find especially tragic is the idea that anyone who’s the target of an unwelcome physical or sexual...

Failing our students — The American public school system still has a long way to go; what can be…

Tamia Lane, Column Writer February 28, 2019

By Tamia Lane We all believe that school systems could do a lot more to improve kids’ learning experiences, whether they are in grade school, middle school or high school. African Americans...

Don’t be a hater — by Tamia Lane

Community support can keep us from acting like ‘crabs in a barrel’
Tamia Lane, Column Writer February 14, 2019

When crabs are in a trap, the animals as a group will pull down any of their kind that start to climb out of the barrel in an attempt to be the first out of the barrel that holds them in. Often...

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