Women's Spaces Radio Show

The Women’s Spaces Radio Show broadcast on Monday July 21, 2025, features guests Lisa Maldonaldo, legal representative for the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses United, and Kristina Nauheimer, a nurse with Hospice of Petaluma, discussing labor issues of nurses in the North Bay. Click on this post’s link for this show’s archive page to see the bios of the guests, reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, recommended action items, this week in Herstory and the playlist.https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250721.html [Note: Music artists royalty for radio broadcast of songs are paid through Spinitron. The Openingand Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with lifetime permission of the Composer and Singer ⁠⁠Alix Dobkin⁠⁠ ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021). Other songs have been removed from this audio file for Spotify due to copyright issue.]

The Women’s Spaces Radio Show of 7/14/2025 features a special segment Men’s Spaces with host Ken Norton interviewing author Dr. Kieran Fox on his New Book I Am Part of Infinity - the Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein. Ken assisted and edited his mentor William Hermanns’ book Einstein and the Poet, which influenced Kieran Fox, who referred often to the book. Check out this show’s webpage for the bio of the guest, report on each segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory and the playlist. [Music artists royalty for radio broadcast of songs are paid through Spinitron. The Opening and ClosingTheme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with lifetime permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021). Other songs have been removed from this audio file for Spotify due to copyright issue.] https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250714.html[Note: Music artists royalty for radio broadcast of songs are paid through Spinitron. The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with lifetime permission of the Composer and Singer ⁠Alix Dobkin⁠ ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021). Other songs have been removed from this audio file for Spotify due to copyright issue.]

Monday’s Women's Spaces Radio Show of 4/14/2025 features our guest Elaine Rock, author of the new biography of Barbara “Dusty” Roads, pioneer feminist in the airline industry. Check out this week’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250414.html

This week’s radio show features our guests Sabra Briere, cofounder of Indivisible Sonoma County, and Sue Hicks, aparticipant in the Hands Off Protest Rally and March of April  5th in Santa Rosa, CA.  Check out this show’s archive page at the link for the bios of the guests, reports on each of the show’s segments, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250407.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Donzaleigh Abernathy on Her Childhood in the Center of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vital Role of Women. Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250224.html

This week’s show features our guest Dr. Kim Hester Williams, Professor of Literature, Sonoma State University, on Women’sRights in Literature. See this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each show segment, Announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250317.html

This Women's Spaces show features our host Elaine B. Holtzgiving a commentary on music selections on Black History Month. Check out this show’s archive page for the reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory and the playlist.https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250210.html

This Women’s Spaces show features the return of ourregular host, Elaine B. Holtz, who gives a commentary with music selections on each of us lighting our candle in the darkness. Check out this show’s archive page for reports on each segment, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250203.html

Co-producer Ken Norton serves as host, standing infor Elaine B. Holtz who is recovering from a fall on January 1.  The show features our guest Rev. Dr. Patricia Keel in discussion on the Healing Guidance of Western and Eastern Metaphysics, with Elaine’s healing Journey weaved in. Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, announcements, linksreferenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA25/WSA250120.html 

Our last show of 2024 on December 30 features Sherry Glaser giving us a live Tarot reading for the transition to the New Year. On January 1st our host Elaine B. Holtz suffered a fall on her knee that caused her lower leg to fracture. She is recovering well. We broadcast a repeat of the show last Monday 1/6/2025. Sherry's Tarot reading was spot on for Elaine and her co-producer Ken Norton as they dealt with this healing experience amidst the outpouring of love of family and community. Check out this show's archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment, this week in Herstory, Announcements, links referenced, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA241230.html

This week’s Women’s Spaces Radio Show is now online. It features our guest Dr. Merith Weisman, the new Executive Director of Sonoma County GoLocal. Since we in Northern California just recently had a tsunami warning, Dr. Weisman also recounts her work with Plan International USA in Indonesia after the tsunami killed 250,000 people in 2004. Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of our guest, reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA241209.html

This week’s show features our guest Zakiya Thomas, CEO of the ERA Coalition, on the petition to President Biden to place the states-ratified Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution. Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each of the show’s segments, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA241216.html

This week’s show features our guest Dr. Andrea Hall discussing her new book “Wake Up! - Get Up in the Morning Feeling Happy to Be Alive Instead of Wishing You Hadn’t Woken Up” and conversing with Elaine on the song “The House I Live In”, noting the divergent feelings due to the discrimination experienced over skin color.  Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA241021.html

This week’s radio show features our first guest Ana Salgaldo on Immigrants’ path to citizenship march in DC, and our second guests Lisa Maldonado and Caroline Banuelos on Unions bringing back the Middle Class. Check out this show’s archive page for the bios of the guests, reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240902.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Jennifer Tucker, Senior Advisor to the ERA Coalition, on lobbying Congress to pass the resolution to include the Equal Rights Amendment in the Constitution.  Jennifer also attended the DNC and gives her insights from that convention. Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240826.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Rosita Stevens-Holsey on her aunt, Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, co-founder of NOW, and Elaine’s report on the CA NOW State Conference held on 8/10/24. Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240819.html

This week’s radio show is now online. It features our first guest, Susan Lamont, announcing the screening of the film “Where Olive Trees Weep,” and our second guest, Diana Carpenter Madoshi, on the Silent Sentinels encouraging Voting in national actions on October 5, 2024. Check out this show’s archive page for the bios of the guests, reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240805.html

This week’s radio/podcast show is features our guest Rebecca Fein, Executive Director of Verity – Sonoma County’s Sexual Assault Prevention, Intervention & Healing Center. Check out this show’s web archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each of the show’s segments, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240624.html

This week’s radio/podcast show features our host commentary on Juneteenth and our returning guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Moving Forward for Freedom of Women. Check out this show’s web archive page for the bio of the guest, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240617.html

This week’s radio show/podcast features our guest SSU Prof. Lauren Morimoto, Ph.D., discussing Sonoma State University’s (SSU) Response to the Students for Justice in Palestine Protest and Their Agreement with Former President Mike Lee. Dr. Morimoto relates the events with the Seawolf Commitment approved by the faculty senate in 2017.  Check out this show’s web archive page linked to this post for the bio of the guest, the Seawolf Commitment, reports on each of the show’s segments, announcements (especially this Saturday’s 54th annual Juneteenth Celebration in Santa Rosa), links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240610.html

This week’s radio/podcast show features our guest Santa Rosa City Councilwoman Victoria Fleming on Emerge California Class of 2025 now open for applications for women to learn what is needed to campaign for public office. Check out this show’s web archive page linked to this post for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240603.html

This week’s radio/podcast show is now online. It features our host Elaine B. Holtz with her commentary, music selections and poetry on Memorial Day. Check out this show’s web archive page linked to this post for reports on each segment of the show, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240527.html

This week’s radio/podcast show features our guest Dr. Andrea Hall-Miller, Community Engagement Coordinator, North Bay Black Chamber of Commerce (NBBCC), describes the Chamber’s first float entry called Sonoma County Trailblazers in the Santa Rosa Rose Parade and the collaboration which won NBBCC the Theme Award. Check out this show’s web archive page at the posted link for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240520.html

This week’s radio/podcast show features author Rivera Sun on her modern Mother’s Day Proclamation. Check out this show’s web archive page at the link of this post. It has the bio of the guest, reports on each show segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240513.html

This week’s Women’s Spaces radio/podcast show features our guests Julianna MacDonald and Madyline Jaramillo, two student core organizers of the SSU Students for Justice in Palestine Encampment discussing why they are involved, the student demands, and the status of the negotiations with the university. Check out this show’s web archive page linked to this post for the bios of the guests, reports on each show segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240506.html

This week’s radio/podcast show features our guest Jenny Blaker, an environmentalist with Sonoma County Climate Activists Network who created a Biomass Power Basics – a factsheet, that disputes Biomass Power being a suitable replacement for petroleum power. See this show’s web archive page linked to this post for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, announcements, links referenced,  this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240429.html

Finally, the radio/podcast show of 4/22/2024 is now online for your listening convenience. Elaine and I lost our dear friend Keith Alden to sudden kidney failure on April 15th, and we grieve his absence in our lives. Keith was a Marine Veteran who experienced the wrath and destruction of the Vietnam. He then followed the spiritual path offered by Adi Da. He was also a fighter for justice. May Keith rest in peace. The 4/22 show was our Earth Day show featuring our co-producer Ken Norton sharing his experience as a student at San Jose State taking part in a student action February 1970, prior to the nationally organized Earth Day, in burying a car as a sign that we wanted changes in policies for the environment. Our guest Starhawk, an ecofeminist, talks about our response as a nation to Earth Day in the last 54 years and the vigilance we still need. She also discusses with Elaine the Israel-Palestine war and the problems it demonstrates when people in the land of different cultures are ruled by one that favors one over the other.  Check out the web archive page for this show at the posted link for the bio of the guest, links referenced, reports on the show’s segments, this week in Herstory, announcements, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240422.html

This week’s radio show/podcast features our host Elaine B. Holtz Commentary and Music on Women Speaking Out. See this show’s web archive page at this post’s link for the reports on each segment of the show, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  The show will be repeated next week. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240408.html

This week’s radio show/audio podcast features our first guest Ana Diaz announcing the Board of Supervisors gold resolution on declaring this week National Farmworkers Awareness Week in Sonoma County, and our second guest Dr. Andrea Hall-Miller, PhD, RN, author, on nursing metaphysics into her two recent books. This show’s web archive page, linked to this post, has the bios of the guests, reports one each of the show’s segments, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory and the playlist. All the Women Spaces shows, both TV and radio, have been archived and can they be accessed by pressing the Archive tab in the top menu bar. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240325.html

This week’s radio/poidcast show features Dr. Harriet Fraad on an Historical Overview of the Women's Struggle for Their Rights in the USA.  Visit this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, in depth reports for each segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240318.html

This week’s radio show is now online. The theme is Women Managing and Programming at Radio KBBF 89.1 FM. It features our guests Alicia Sanchez, President of the Board of Radio KBBF, Lois Perlman, co-programmer of the show Speaking of Palestine, Ana Salgado, producer of the show Compartiendo y Aprendiendo, and Alisha Valazquez, co-producer of the show Simple-Mente. We are all volunteers at Radio KBBF and our guests share why they were attracted to radio and their program.  Check out this show’s web archive page for the reports on each segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240311.html

This week’s show features Kirstyne Lange, President of the Sonoma County Branch of the NAACP, updating us with its mission for Civil Rights and events it is sponsoring. Check out this show’s archive page for in depth reporting for each segment of the show, bio of the guest, links referenced during the show, this week in Herstory, announcements and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240226.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Molly Murphy MacGregor, Executive Director, National Women’s History Alliance, on this year’s them: “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” Check out this show’s web archive page for the guest’s bio, reports on each segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240304.html

This week’s radio show is now online. It features our guest Katrina Phillips, Chair of the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights at its role in local democracy. She shares the influences in her life to prepare her for this role and announces a special meeting on Thursday 2/22/24 when CHR prepares a ceasefire in Gaza report for the Board of Supervisors. The next monthly meeting of CHR is next Tuesday 2/27/24 on the History of Slavery in Sonoma County Project with the NAACP. See this show’s archive page for the announcements of these events and others, the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240219.html

This week’s show features our guest Dr. Kim D. Hestor Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Literature at SSU, discussing the History of Black Women in Literature and Music. Check out this show’s archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on the show segments, announcements, links referenced, and the playlist at https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240212.html

This week’s show is now online. It features our first guest Deva Marie Proto, Sonoma County Registrar of Voters on the Primary Election on Tuesday March 5th; and our second guests Donna Roper and Therese Scherrer, officers of the League of Women Voters, on their upcoming Campaign Forums and Civics Class series. See this show’s archive page for the bio of the guests, larger reports on each segment, this week in Herstory, Announcements, links referenced and the playlist.  https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240205.html

This week’s radio/podcast show features Jan Block, outgoing Chair of the Commission on the Status of Women of Sonoma County. See the archive page of this show for our guest’s bio, reports on each show segment, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240129.html

This week’s radio show/podcast features show host Elaine B. Holtz does a full show Commentary on “Children Live What They Learn” and “The Seven Principles of Kwaanza” as Related to Children. See this show’s archive page for the report on the show, and points covered by the “Children Live What They Learn” poster and the list of the “Seven Principles of Kwannza.” https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240122.html

After a 3-week break we return with this week’s show featuring guests Liala Parrish, the student winner of the annual MLK Birthday Celebration Oratory Award who reads her speech she made on January 15th, and Tina Rogers, a member of the Committee organizing the event, also announcing the “Not a Day Off but Day On” occurring on the MLK holiday of Monday. Check out the show’s archive page for bios of the guests, reports on each segment including our host Elaine B. Holtz’s Commentary, this week in Herstory, Announcements, links referenced, and the playlist. There are also links to the different podcast venues for the show. https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA24/WSA240115.html

This week’s radio show features Nancy Pemberton, a member of the Committee for Law Enforcement Accountability Now (CLEAN), a local volunteer organization, and of the Community Advisory Council (CAC) of the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO), a county government agency, on improvements in IOLERO’s investigatory powers of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. A CAC Townhall is scheduled for December 6th. See this show’s web archive page for our guest’s bio, reports on each show segment including our host Elaine’s Commentary, Announcements, this week in Herstory and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231127.html

This week’s radio show features Madonna Feather Cruz on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and on the annual Alcatraz Thanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony honoring the American Indian Movement (AIM) Occupation in November 1969. See this show’s web page at the link for the bio of the guest, reports on each show segment, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231120.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Leslene della-Madre on her new book “She Who Spins the Coils of Creation: Sacred Female Cosmology in the Electric PlasMA Universe.” Visit this show’s web archive page for our guest’s bio, reports on each segment of the show, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231113.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Leticia Hanke, successful businesswoman and Founder of the Lime Foundation for teaching at-risk youth practical skills. See this show’s web archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment to the show, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231023.html

This week’s radio show/podcast features our guest Rev. Dr. Patricia Keel on the meaning of Christmas. Check out this show’s web archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist: http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231211.html

This week’s radio show/podcast features our guest Rev. Dr. Patricia Keel on the meaning of Christmas. Check out this show’s web archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, announcements, links referenced, this week in Herstory, and the playlist: http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231211.html

This week’s radio show features our first guest Janeen Murray on GoLocal for the Holidays, and our second guest Dr. Harriet Fraad on Economic and Political Update. Be sure to see this show’s web archive page through this linked post for the bios of the guests, show segment reports, links referenced, announcements, and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231204.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Lynn Woolsey, retired Congresswoman D-CA, on her political career and on the legacy of Senator Dianne Feinstein on her passing. Check out this show’s webpage for bio of the guest, reports on each of the show’s segments, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231016.html

This week’s radio show is now online. We feature guest Susan Lamont on Anti-War Activism and Local Peace Protests. Check out this show’s web archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, links referenced,  announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA231009.html

This week’s radio show features Susan Chunco and Susan Lamont, both Honorees on the Sebastopol Living Peace Wall, talking about their social activism. See this show’s web archive page for bios of the guests, reports on each segment of the show, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist. All shows, both the past TV shows and radio shows, are archived, which can be accessed from the Archives tab on the top menu bar on each page of the website. Please let us know if you experience any difficulties viewing or listening to the shows. http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA230925.html

This week’s radio show features our guest Marianne Williamson in Conversation. Marianne Williamson is an author, teacher of The Course in Miracles, and a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2024. See this show’s web archive page for the bio of the guest, reports on each segment of the show, links referenced, announcements, this week in Herstory, and the playlist.  http://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA23/WSA230918.html