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Forum tells remarkable and true stories about who we are and where we live. In the first hour, Alexis Madrigal convenes the diverse voices of the Bay Area, before turning to Mina Kim for the second hour to chronicle and center Californians’ experience. In an increasingly divided world, Mina and Alexis host conversations that inform, challenge and unify listeners with big ideas and different viewpoints.
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Please be aware: People have received messages from scammers pretending to be from KQED. KQED neither requests nor accepts money for interviews, and you should not respond to any messages like this. All email correspondence from Forum will come from a kqed.org email address.
Looking for a different way to engage with KQED? Join us on Discord, a social media platform focused on community (not clicks). Check out our guide to joining Forum discussions on Discord.
Our Discord server remains one of the more innovative ways we connect with listeners, offering a lively space for civic engagement, conversation, and direct interaction between KQED audiences and the journalists behind our radio and podcast programs. KQED's digital community continues to grow, and we'd love to have you as part of it.
Funding for Forum is provided by The Jenerosity Foundation and Maria Manetti Shrem.
Want to call/submit your comments during our live Forum program Mon-Fri, 9am-11am? We’d love to hear from you! Please dial 866.SF.FORUM or (866) 733-6786, email [email protected], tweet, post on Facebook, or join KQED’s Discord community.
Please be aware: People have received messages from scammers pretending to be from KQED. KQED neither requests nor accepts money for interviews, and you should not respond to any messages like this. All email correspondence from Forum will come from a kqed.org email address.
Looking for a different way to engage with KQED? Join us on Discord, a social media platform focused on community (not clicks). Check out our guide to joining Forum discussions on Discord.
Our Discord server remains one of the more innovative ways we connect with listeners, offering a lively space for civic engagement, conversation, and direct interaction between KQED audiences and the journalists behind our radio and podcast programs. KQED's digital community continues to grow, and we'd love to have you as part of it.
Funding for Forum is provided by The Jenerosity Foundation and Maria Manetti Shrem.
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The Team
Mina Kim
Co-Host, Forum
Mina Kim is host of the statewide hour of KQED Forum; a live, daily, call-in talk show. Through intimate and informative conversations, Mina connects the state’s many residents, and illuminates the issues affecting California and the nation. Before joining Forum, Mina was KQED’s evening news anchor, and health reporter for The California Report. Her award-winning work has included natural disasters in Napa and gun violence in Oakland. At the University of Michigan she studied the intersection of gender, race and class. She was a first grade teacher through Teach For America, and ran a mentorship program for students aspiring to be the first in their families to go to college. She grew up in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Alexis Madrigal
Co-Host, Forum
Alexis Madrigal is the co-host of Forum. He is also a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the co-founder of the COVID Tracking Project. He's the creator of the podcast, Containers, and has been a staff writer at Wired. He was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Information School, and is working on a book about Oakland and the Bay Area's revolutionary ideas.
Danny Bringer
Engineer, Forum
Danny Bringer has worked in Radio since 1987 and has been with KQED SINCE 1994. He has been the Forum Engineer since 2001. Danny grew up in the Bay Area and currently lives in San Ramon. He loves working with the Forum team and delivering the Forum sound to our listeners. When he isn't mixing sound he loves to run Ultra Marathons.
Susan Britton
Lead Producer, Forum
Susan Britton is the lead producer of Forum with Mina Kim. She's been with Forum since 2012, beginning as an on-call producer, and she was a longtime contributor to KALW. She's a graduate of Columbia Law School and Yale College.
Judy Campbell
Senior Editor, Forum
Judy Campbell is the senior editor of Forum with host Alexis Madrigal. She hosted and produced the KQED podcast The Leap, about people making dramatic, risky changes. Previously, Judy was a KQED reporter, focusing on criminal justice and prison issues.
Matt Collette
Senior Editor, Forum
Matt Collette is the senior editor for Forum's 10 a.m. hour, which is hosted by Mina Kim and focuses on statewide issues. He’s edited and produced audio at news organizations including Vox, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Standard and WNYC. Matt lives in Oakland with his partner and their dog, Orzo.
Caroline Smith
Producer, Forum
Caroline Smith is a producer for Forum. Smith joined the team in 2019 as an intern and became an on-call producer later that year. From the Bay Area, Smith graduated with a B.A. in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley and is an alumnus of The Daily Californian.
Jarrod Sport
Producer, Forum
Jarrod Sport is one of the producers for Forum's 10 a.m. hour, which is hosted by Mina Kim and focuses on statewide issues. He was once an intern with the radio news team at KQED, and has produced and edited for the World Affairs Council, Commonwealth Club, and StoryCorps.
Blanca Torres
Producer, Forum
Blanca Torres joined KQED in January of 2020 after 16 years of working as a newspaper reporter mostly covering business. She is also a member and former board member for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Blanca earned her bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in Nashville and a master's in fine arts in creative writing at Mills College. She lives in the East Bay with her family.
Grace Won
Producer, Forum
Grace Won has been a Forum producer since 2019. Prior to joining KQED, Grace was a litigator, and worked on a variety of pro bono prisoner cases, including one that resulted in overturning a client's death penalty sentence on constitutional grounds. She holds a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, an M.A. in English from University College London and a B.A. in American history and East Asian studies from Harvard University.
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