The Kitchen Sisters Present Creators & Guests

Nikki Silva is an audio producer. She works with Davia Nelson as part of "The Kitchen Sisters."

Davia Nelson is an audio producer. She works with Nikki Silva as part of "The Kitchen Sisters."

Liam O’Donoghue is a journalist whose work focuses on the history of Oakland. He writes a monthly feature about the East Bay for SF Gate. He is the host and producer of the "East Bay Yesterday" podcast.O'Donoghue's work has appeared in KQED, Oaklandside, Berkeleyside, Mother Jones, Salon, East Bay Express, 99% Invisible, The Kitchen Sisters, and Snap Judgement.

Alex Atack is the Producer of Kerning Cultures Podcast.

Manny Yekutiel is the owner of Manny's, a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, political bookstore and civic gathering and events space at the corner of 16th and Valencia in the Mission District.

Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll was a prisoner in California's San Quentin State Prison, sentenced of 54 years to life for murder.

Winona Luke is an Ojibwe leader, writer, food activist, rural development economist, and environmentalist. She is the executive director of Honor the Earth, and most recently she was a leader at Standing Rock fighting the Dakota Access pipeline.

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was a poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.Ferlinghetti wrote poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration. He was best known for his second collection of poems, "A Coney Island of the Mind," which was published in 1958.Ferlinghetti served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, then received his M.A. in English literature from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Paris.When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco created the annual "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day" on his birthday, March 24. He died in February of 2021.

Betty Soskin is the nation's oldest serving Park Ranger.

Robert Krulwich is a radio and television journalist who currently serves as a science correspondent for NPR and is a co-hosts of the program Radiolab.

Linda Maria Ronstadt is a retired American popular music singer known for singing in a wide range of genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin.

Susan Rogers is an American professor, sound engineer and record producer best known for being Prince’s staff engineer during his commercial peak, including albums like Purple Rain, Around the World in a Day, Parade, Sign o' the Times, and The Black Album."

Alexis Madrigal is a journalist. Currently, he is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where he is deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com.Previously, Madrigal worked for the Fusion Media Group, and before that, he wrote for Wired.In 2011, Madrigal's first book, "Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology" was published.In 2014, Madrigal spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival alongside Tony Fadell as part of the panel discussion, "A New and Promising Energy Future". In 2017, he hosted an 8-part audio documentary on containerization called Containers.Madrigal received his B.A. in English from Harvard University.

Camille Seaman is a polar photographer and activist.

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German filmmaker, playwright, author, and photographer.