When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020, UCSB Arts & Lectures, like every establishment across the country, was forced […more…]

As told to Brian Rinker Geoff Green’s mantra is “of, by, and for.” Having learned the value of both activism […more…]

Other than a brief stint in New York City in 1989, Katya Armistead has spent almost her entire adult life […more…]

He grew up in Compton, but Guy Walker has deep roots in Santa Barbara County going back to the 1970s, […more…]

If you had told Celesta M. Billeci, UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Miller McCune Executive Director, in March of 2020 that […more…]

Krystle could have gotten worried when she lost her job due to COVID, as so many others had, and found […more…]

Geoff Green knows that Dan Pritzker and MacKenzie Scott are on to something. That is, Green believes that community colleges […more…]

It took a while for anyone to realize that there was something strange about so many cars filling the parking […more…]

The esteemed independent educational institution marked its 80-plus year dedication to growth, improvement, and future-forward thinking with a name change […more…]

When she talks about education, Tina Hansen McEnroe likes to invoke Irish poet W. B. Yeats: “Education is not the […more…]

It’s a sunny August morning, just a couple days before California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) starts its 2021-22 school […more…]

Mariela Marin gets anxious any time they look at the waitlist of people seeking mental health services. On a typical […more…]

The therapeutic preschool for economically at-risk children taps the proficiencies of Dr. Peggy Dodds, MD; Daisy Estrada Ochoa; and Ann […more…]

Anne was a senior at Hollywood High School hoping to become a veterinarian. But the daughter of a single mom […more…]

The ringing of school bells isn’t the only sound that reminds us that Santa Barbara schools are back in session. […more…]

I wasn’t much of a hiker before the pandemic. But being cooped up inside for days and weeks on end, […more…]

Congressman Carbajal paid a special visit to Storyteller Children’s Center’s De La Vina campus on July 16 to read stories […more…]

For a relatively large and well-established nonprofit organization in our community, United Way of Santa Barbara County over the last […more…]

Santa Barbara has been all awash with talk about the reopening of public schools ever since the pandemic shut them […more…]

On Thursday, April 29, the Santa Barbara Education Foundation hosted the Hope Awards to celebrate individuals and programs making strides […more…]

Santa Barbara Education Foundation Executive Director Margie Yahyavi was reluctant to have her office visible during our Zoom call last […more…]