Aimee Allison is the popular Bay Area radio host and producer of the daily KPFA Morning Show.  She founded the innovative local media project OaklandSeen.  In addition, Aimee hosts Comcast Newsmakers and in 2008 hosted the business show In Good Company on CNN Headline News regional broadcasts.  Her talk show covers a wide range of issues – from the economy at home to conflict abroad, and she features unlikely heroes bringing new ideas and connections to solve our problems.  Recently, Aimee has hosted national live specials for Pacifica Radio, Link TV, and Clear Channel’s Green 960 on a variety of topics, including: Winter Soldier – Iraq War veterans testimony, the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, “Obama Goes to Africa”,  “Greasy Rider” – Used Vegetables as Fuel”, and “Black Power in the Age of Obama”.

She is a frequent speaker, with recent appearances at many conferences including Renewable Alaska, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Stanford Product Realization Network, the Women’s Leadership Forum and the Craigslist Foundation. She has been profiled in many publications including Yes Magazine, Alternet.org, The Nation and the San Francisco Chronicle.  Her diverse experiences and multicultural background, from soldier to community activist to corporate manager make her wide-ranging discussions engaging to a wide variety of people. She worked as the Media Manager at Green for All in Oakland, CA and was an early advocate for green jobs as a city council candidate in 2006, a city that later created the first Green Jobs Corps under the leadership of Van Jones and Mayor Ron Dellums.  She is the co-author of Army of None and held workshops in over forty communities in the US.  She holds a BA and MA from Stanford University.

Recent Presentations:

  • What Women Can Do with Marianne Williamson and Attitudinal Healing Network, Oakland. March 2010.
  • Hosted “A Forum on our Future: The State of Public Education in 2010″, San Francisco. March 2010.
  • Martin Luther King Jr Community Celebration at Taylor United Methodist Church, Oakland, CA. January 2010.
  • National Urban League’s – Black Executive Exchange Program; Green Economy panel. June 2009. Audience: HBCU administrators, college students, government officials.
  • The Business of Clean Energy Alaska Conference, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Jobs: National Trends and Alaskan Opportunity.  June 2009.  Audience:  State and local legislators, workforce development professionals, representatives of community organizations, area businesses.
  • Stanford Product Realization Network, Stanford University. Keynote: New Green Investments and Policy to Rebuild Manufacturing.  June 2009.  Audience: faculty, PhD candidates and undergraduates in Schools of Engineering, Medicine, Silicon Valley manufacturers.
  • Sustainability in the Green Economy – Annual Best Practices Summit. Centralia, WA. Keynote: The Climate Bill and Beyond – the Future of the Green Economy.  Audience: Small businesses, labor unions, university administrators, workforce development professionals.
  • East Bay Housing Organization 25th Anniversary Celebration, May 2009.
  • Pacifica Radio 60th Anniversary Celebration, May, 2009.
  • African-American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame Awards, February, 2009.

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A Billion People Don’t have to Starve: Enough

A Billion People Don't have to Starve: Enough

Latest interview: Roger Thurow, author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in the Age of Plenty. He's a man on a mission - having left a 30 year reporting career at the Wall Street Journal to work on international agricultural policy full-time.  It was all about Africa, he told me - the Green Revolution of the 1970's that increased farming yield never made it to the motherland and the food aid and international development and trade policies are self-interested and do not feed hungry people in the long-term. Turns ...

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We haven’t forgotten you, Hassani Campbell, and we want you home

We haven't forgotten you, Hassani Campbell, and we want you home

[Aimee Allison | OaklandSeen] Hassani, you are our son. In the six months since you have been missing, the community hasn't forgotten you. We're doubling our resolve to make Oakland a city where all children - ignored, vulnerable, poor - are safe and protected. The small group that held a candlelight vigil speaks for thousands of us - we want the police to continue to investigate the case. More than that, we want to understand where the system that places and tracks foster care children has failed, and what we can do to fix it. Thanks ...

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Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp Keynote

Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp Keynote

Aimee Allison, Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp Keynote Speech 2007 where she muses about "retooling" for the long haul and the importance of people who work for change. Download this episode (right click and save)

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KPFA Morning Show

KPFA Morning Show

Weekdays Mondays through Friday from 7am - 9am pacific time. Politics and culture from around the Bay and around the world. 94.1 FM in the SF Bay Area. On-line live and archived at www.kpfa.org.

The Book

An activist’s guide to combating military recruitment.
http://myspace.com/armyofnonebook

Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.

However, even as these destructive efforts to militarize youth accelerate, so do the creative and powerful efforts of students, community members, and veterans to challenge them. Today, the counter recruitment movement—from counseling to poetry slams to citywide lobbying efforts—has become one of the most practical ways to tangibly resist U.S. policy that cuts funding for education and social programs while promoting war and occupation. Without enough soldiers, the U.S. cannot sustain its empire.

Army of None exposes the real story behind the military-recruitment complex, and offers guides, tools, and resources for education and action, and people power strategies to win.