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How City Councils Can Improve Youth Wellbeing and Health with Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson
In this week's episode, host Ryan Coonerty speaks with Santa Cruz, CA, City Councilmember and Vice Mayor Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson. On the city council, she uses her background in social services and public health to integrate the values of wellbeing, sustainability, and equity into all of Santa Cruz's policies. Kalantari-Johnson shares her path to service, starting with her early memories of her childhood in Iran, including a pivotal interaction with Iranian "morality police" that prompted her family to move to the United States to pursue brighter futures for her and her sister. Ryan and…
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