





Rainier Avenue Radio s hosting a special broadcast series entitled
“The Impacts of the Coronavirus in south Seattle and Surrounding Communities”
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW to be healthy, safe, & aware. Due diligence, but not letting fear normalize your daily living!
Broadcasts Fridays 1-3pm Pacific Time
Watch live broadcasts on the Rainier Avenue Radio app, on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch.
Listen at www.RainierAvenueRadio.World, on TuneIn or smart speakers.
Thank you Bill & Melinda Gates Discovery Center
for featuring Rainier Avenue Radio's journalism in our ongoing live broadcast series "Impacts of Coronavirus on S Seattle & Surrounding Communities!
Full Article: https://www.discovergates.org/story/as-a-public-spokesperson-i-instinctively-knew-i-could-do-something-about-this/

ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN
Rainier Avenue Radio is a south Seattle radio station and digital media hub. We are proud to serve south Seattle and surrounding communities with opportunities to engage with critical issues, compelling stories, and quality entertainment 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
During the current coronavirus pandemic, Rainier Avenue Radio will continue our efforts to provide educational and informational broadcasts about the coronavirus as well as broadcasting the impact that the coronavirus is having on south Seattle’s diverse residents, service providers, housing, childcare, schools, and businesses.
It’s just as important that we amplify the diverse voices of our communities and share your narratives of unanticipated challenges caused by the coronavirus over our broadcast media networks as part of our communication strategies. It’s also important that our communities can access reliable information, have a resource to filter misinformation, and lower anxieties or fears about the disease while trying to normalize life and not let fear rule daily living in our communities.
We are asking that the community connect with us in this effort. There will be opportunities to join us for broadcasts to share your actions and community needs.Thank you for participating in our effort to effectively share information within and about our communities. We will be utilizing our media broadcast networks, website, and social media to keep our community updated with new information, a variety of services that are available, and/or that become available to assist our communities during these challenges. We will be sharing YOUR needs with the appropriate agencies or individuals to ensure that your communities needs are heard.
Rainier Avenue Radio is proud to be YOUR community radio station serving south Seattle and surrounding communities. We NEED your voice, and your narrative. Together, we can make it through this and be more prepared for emergencies.
2021 & SPECIAL BROADCASTS
Ep 98 Tenants Union of WA, Violet Lavatai
Ep 99 Spokane DOH vaccine engagement, Carmen Pacheco Jones
Ep 100 Seattle Department of Transportation:
Bike Share & Scooter Share Program Manager, Joel Miller,
& Community Outreach Lead, Sara Colling
Ep 101 King County Council Chair Claudia Balducci: Amazon’s $2Billion Housing Investment
Ep 102 King County Ombuds Pamela Williams, vaccine distribution in adult long term care.
Ep 103 Chief Harold Scoggins & Dr. Michael Sayre Seattle Fire Dept. vaccine distribution
Ep 104 Ping Ping: vaccine distribution - Asian / Pacific Isl. communities in Spokane / E WA.
Ep 105 CEO Min Chang provides an update on Kin On.
Ep 106 Fidelity Pandemic Relief Services.
Ep 107 Urban Family Community works & upcoming coat drive.
Ep 108 The FBI on the Threat of Domestic Terrorism.
Ep 109 Vaccines distribution - Benton-Franklin County.
Ep 110 Seattle Fire Dept's Mobile Covid Vaccine Teams.
Ep 111 UrbanFam.org Safety & Community Programs.
Ep 112 Dr. John Vassall - health care impact of Covid on Black Communities Hear Ep 112
Ep 113 Vaccine awareness & distribution in communities: Dr. Peter Hotez & Dian Fergesun. Hear Ep 113
Ep 114 Seattle councilmember, Lorena Gonzales.
Ep 115 Shaun Glaze, Research Co-Lead at Black Brilliance Research Project.
Ep 116 Amerigroup's Community Relations Representative, Shanda Blunt.
Ep 117 Season Oltmann, Executive Director / Development - American Lung Assoc WA,
Replay of Rainier Beach Town Hall Meeting 2
Ep 118 King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay.
Ep 119 xecutive Producer / artist Eugenie Jones: 2021 Jackson Street Jazz Walk
Ep 120 Seattle Inspector General Lisa A. Judge.
Ep 121. 3-5-21
King County Public Health Officer and Chief, Dr. Jeffrey Duchin
Ep 122 Open Doors for Multicultural Families Executive Director, Ginger Kwan
Ep 123 Mike Jones, Assistant Director of Glover EmpowerMentoring (GEM)
Ep 124 Naomi Mulitauaopele Tagaleo'o, MBA, Executive Director - Education with Purpose Foundation for Pacific Islanders
Ep 125 Dominique Davis, CEO & Co-Founder of Community Passageways
AEp 127 cting Director/Special Events Committee Chair-Seattle Office of Film + Music, Chris Swenson
Ep 128 Communications & Outreach Manager for NAMI Seattle, Leah McGraw
KEp 129 ing County Elections Communications Officer, Halei Watkins on Running for Public Office.
Ep 131 Seattle Humane CEO Christopher Ross.
Ep 132. 4-9-21
Foster Grandparents Program by Homage Senior Services.
Program Manager, Adelheid Arbogast and a program volunteer Mary Floyd.
Ep 133 Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology & Immunizations. Staci Phan
Ep 134 Kerrie Hurd, Director
Ep 135 U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Seattle District
Tony B - Unmasked
Ep 136, 137, 138 5-21-21
Ep 136 - Terrence Morgan, Program Manager
Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle - Career Bridge program"
Hear Ep 136
Ep 137 - John B Dunn, MD MPH, Medical Director for Preventive Care Kaiser Permanente Washington
Ep 138 - New Masks Guidelines with Public Health - Jeffrey Duchin MD: Coronavirus Impacts
Diseases, Epidemiology & Immunizations. Staci Phan
Ep 139 - Sanjiv Doreswamy, Executive Director - RVCDF.org Dwight Prevo, Vice President - Wells Fargo Social Impact & Sustainability on the Rainier Valley Community Development Fund RVCDF.ORG,
Ep 140 - Najee's Smooth Jazz All Stars
Ep 141 - Dennis Worsham, Public Health – Seattle / King County's new Interim Director
Public Health - Seattle & King County Press Briefing: Dr. Jeff Duchin Live
Ep 140 - Najee's Smooth Jazz All Stars
Ep 141 - Dennis Worsham, Public Health – Seattle / King County's new Interim Director
Ep 143 - Cindi Bright
Ep 144 - Kinsey African American Art Collection
Ep 145 - Public Health SEA-King Co Dr. Mark Del Beccaro
Ep 146 - Seattle School Districts Director of Athletics
Ep 147 - MLK Seattle Committee
Ep 148 - Seattle Times Reporter Sydney Brownstone
Ep 149 - Byrd Barr Place
Ep 150 - SDOT Current Projects
Ep 151 - Kaiser Permanente Doctor
Ep 152 - Skyway Love Train Community Block Party
Ep 153 - Breast & Ovarian Cancer Awareness
Ep 154 - Update on Venues During Pandemic
SPECIAL BROADCASTS
Streetbeat Ep 40 King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay
Streetbeat Ep 41 Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan
Streetbeat Ep 42 Tammy Morales Seattle City Councilmember, District 2
Streetbeat Ep 43 Bremerton Mayor Greg Wheeler
StreetBeat Ep 44 Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards
StreetBeat Ep 45 Paula Houston - UW Medicine Healthcare Equity Director
MARCH - DECEMBER 2020 BROADCASTS
Ep 1 Candace Jackson, Education Consultant - King County Public Health, 3-13-20
Ep 2 Louise Chernin, CEO / President - Greater Seattle Business Assoc.
Ep 3:Michelle Mitchell-Brannon - Atlantic Street Center
& DeShawn Jackson, Student/Parent Advocate John Muir Elementary.
Ep 4 Thai Dao - South end resident tested positive for coronavirus
Ep 5 Business owners Tia Matthies - The Royal Room
& Theo Martin - Island Soul Rum Bar & Soul Shack
Ep 6 Pat McCarthy, Executive Director - SP Schools Athletic Dept.
& DeShawn Jackson, Advocate - John Muir Elementary
Ep 7 Brian McGuigan, Program Director - Artist Trust
& Saida Alim, Mental Health Therapist - Somali Youth/Family Club
Ep 8 Kurt Schroeder, President - Safeway & Albertsons, Seattle Division
Ep 9 Leigh Thomas, Communications - FEES
Ep 10 Josephine Howell - Songstress, Covid-19+
& Doug Baldwin - Family First Foundation
Ep 11 Harold Scoggins, Chief - Seattle Fire Department
Ep 12 Ryan Pricco, Director/Advocacy & Policy-Child Care Aware of WA
Ep 13 Lewis Rudd, CEO - Ezell's Famous Chicken
Ep 14 Lillian Young, Communications - Kin-On
(with Vietnamese translation / Monique Le
Ep 15 Seattle Black Leadership during the coronavirus pandemic - Girmay Zahilay, King County Councilmember.
Wyking Garrett, Africatown CEO.
Trish Millenes Dziko, Technology Access Foundation CEO.
Michelle Merriweather, Seattle Metropolitan Urban League CEO. Marcus Green, South Seattle Emerald Publisher.
Ep 16 Puget Sound Black Leadership during the coronavirus pandemic - Fahren Johnson, Erin Jones, Alicia Crank, Pastor Johnson, Tracy Flood
Ep 17 Asian Leadership:T
oshiko Hasegawa, WA State Commission / Asian Pacific American Affairs
Ye-Ting Woo, Assistant U.S. Attorney - Western District of WA
Herman Tam -Kin On
Valerie Tran, Friends of Little Saigon
Lydia Faitalia, United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Ep 18 Spokane Black Communities:
Carmen Pacheco Jones, Spokane Reg. Law & Justice Councilmember.
Pastor Lonnie Mitchell, Bethel African Meth. Episc. Church- Spokane
Sandy Williams, Black Lens News
Ep 19 Yakima Mayor Patricia Byers.
Ep 20 Kris Hermanns - Seattle Foundation.
Ep 21 Carolyn Bick - South Seattle Emerald.
Ep 22 Glenn Turner, Emergency Feeding Program
Ep 23 Clifton Russell - Praisalujah Discipleship
Ep 24 Darryl Smith - Homesight WA
Ep 25 Steve Polyak - UW Medicine Virologist
Ep 27 Jeff Duchin MD- King County PublicHealth Officer
Ep 28 Densho Japanese American Legacy Project
Ep 29 Thai Dao - S Seattle Resident, Covid-19+
Ep 32 - Jason White, Yakima City Councilmember
Ep 33 - John Gilbreath, Earshot Jazz
Ep 34 - Cliff Cawthon, Immigrant & Refugee Covid19 task force member
Ep 35 - Patricia Byers, Mayor of Yakima
Ep 36 - Greg Wheeler, Mayor of Bremerton
Ep 37 - David Jones, The Copy Spot
Ep 38 - Steven Severin, Neumos & WA Nightlife Music Assoc.
Ep 39 - Predatory Home Buying during the pandemic
Ep 40 - James Reese, Carrie House Church
Ep 41 - Tank Sherrill, Black Prisoners Caucus
Ep 42 - King County Councilmember Girmay Zahilay
Ep 43 - Richard RJ Johnson, Kent Black Action Commission
Ep 44 - Mary Rabourn, King County Public Health
Ep 45 - Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, King County Public Health
Ep 46 - Jorge Baron, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Ep 47- Predatory Home Buying during the Pandemic
Ep 48- NW Grocery Association #MaskUpWA campaign, Holly Chisa
Ep 49- John Taylor, King County Local Services
Ep 50- Mick Hoffman, WIAA on High School Sports
Ep 51 - Calli Knight, King County Deputy Director, External Relations
Ep 52 - Emergency Feeding Program, Glenn Turner
Ep 53 - Stay Healthy Streets Seattle
Ep 54 - Are BLM Protests being Used for Violentce? Ruby Holland & Victoria Beach
Ep 55 - State of Live Music / Venues. Marty Griswold & Steven Severin
Ep 56 - Be Ready. Stay Hydrated, Leija Farr
Ep 57 - Big Day of Play, Danyal Lotfi
Ep 58 - Taproot Cafe, Tiana Garrett
Ep 59 - Growlerz Dog Daycare
Ep 60 - FBI Advisory Special Agent Jim Griffin
Ep 61 - Seatttle-King County Public Health Director Patty Hayes
Ep 62 - Greg Wheeler, Mayor of Bremerton
Ep 63 - Denise Juneau, Superintendent of Seattle Public Schools
Ep 64 - Seattle Pre-school 2021
Ep 65 - Seattle Homeless, Sydney Brownstoe - Seattle Times
Ep 66 - King County Pandemic EBT - Callista Kennedy
Ep 67 - Earshot Jazz, John Gilbreath
Ep 68 - Mental Health, NAMI WA, Jenny Gruenberg
Ep 69 - Urban League Seattle - black voter registration+ Census event
Ep 70 - Chinatown-Intl District + its name change 9-18-20
Ep 71 - RVC (Rainier Valley Corps) 9-18-20
Ep 72 - South Seattle Community Haunted House
Ep 73 - Chip-in.co Community Fundraising: 9-25-20
Ep 74 - September is Recovery & Suicide Prevention month: 9-25-20
Ep 75 - Impacts of Coronavirus: K-12 Student health & care
Ep 76 - How does the FBI Define & Identify Domestic Terrorism? 10-2-20
Ep 77 - The Uptick of Hate Groups - Hal Bernton, Seattle Times journalist
Ep 78 - Tony B. Two Americas
Ep 79 - Seattle Homeless, Sydney Brownstone - Seattle Times
Ep 80 - Musicians Healthcare - SMASHseattle.org, Denise Burnside
Ep 81- Coronavirus Update with Tony B - MIS-A and MIS-C
Ep 82 - King County Intl Airport/Boeing Field Director John Parrot 10-16-20
Ep 83 - Foster Grandparent Program. Homage Senior Services: 10-23-20
Ep 84 Covid Vaccines, Evan Bush-Seattle Times Reporter 10-23-20
Ep 85 - Seattle BLM Protests: Victoria Beach says it's hijacked! 10-30-20
Ep 86 - King County Local Services Grants, Hugo Garcia 10-23-20
Ep 87 - Winter High School Sports, Mick Hoffman, WIAA 11-20-20
Ep 88 - Energy assistance program, Byrd Barr Place, Tiela Combs
Ep 89 - Child Care Aware of WA, Ryan Pricco
Ep 90 - Initiative: disaggregate Pacific Isl./Asian Americans, Joseph Seia
Ep 91 - United Way of King County - Gordon McHenry Jr., CEO
Ep 92 - My Brother's Teacher, Increasing teacher diversity, William White
Eps 93, 94, 95, 96 - Public Health- Seattle / King County. 12-11-20
Anthony Rivers, Project Manager
Vanessa Quince, Social Research Scientist.
Daphne Pi, Health Services Administrator.
Ep 97 Country Doctor Carolyn Downs After Hours Clinic, Dr. Rob Jones, 12-19-20