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Martina Chavez-Young builds a yoga community rooted in accessibility
For an outstanding example of the value of transferrable skills, look no further than Martina Chavez-Young.
The founder/owner of Richmond’s Gaia Yoga, voted a 2025 “Readers’ Pick” for the best yoga studio in the entire East Bay region...
Bake Sum balances expansion with employee well-being
In 2021, Joyce Tang started Bake Sum at the Bread Project’s commissary kitchen. Five years later, the bakery recently moved into a second location in Alameda. Since those first pastry box pop-ups in Berkeley, Bake Sum has...
Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective
In a fourth floor gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two women stand transfixed. Gazing upward at a hanging sculpture made with galvanized steel wire and lit by a diffuse spotlight that casts a...
Channeling an indomitable spirit
At 95, Dolores Huerta could rest on her laurels with no reproaches. Labor leader, tireless fighter for immigrant rights and civil rights, as well as feminist,...
West Edge Opera Presents Its Summer of the Supernovas
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the...
Hope is homegrown
I walk by a row of sweetgum trees on my way to work. This time of year, the sidewalk is still scattered with their spiky seed...
Bringing home the bacon
Money is emotional. It carries baggage—shaped by our earliest memories, our missteps and sometimes real trauma. Fear, guilt and shame often shape financial decisions. And financial...
