Doing What Works: Exploring the Blue Economy is a podcast series created at Santa Monica College that dives deep into the vast potential and challenges of the Blue Economy. Its goal: help listeners discover and learn more about future opportunities that the Blue Economy has for students, industry and the Los Angeles economy.
Podcast Episode Guide
Episode 1
Dr. Nathan Churches
Co-Founder/Chief Science Officer, Holdfast Aquaculture
Episode 2
Stephen Cheung
President and CEO Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation
President, World Trade Center Los Angeles
Episode 3
Torre Polizzi & Leslie Booher
CEOs/Farmers, Sunken Seaweed
Episode 4
Eliza Harrison
Director of California Operations, Ocean Rainforest
Episode 5
Jo Tavares
Director, California Center for Climate Change Education at WLAC
Episode 6
Terry Tamminen
President and CEO, AltaSea
Episode 7
Gary Fleener
Science, Sustainability and Farm Education Manager, Hog Island Oyster Co.
Meet the SMC Team
Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins: An Emmy award-winning journalist, with decades of experience hosting news, entertainment
and educational content across a multitude of media and digital platforms. Blaize-Hopkins
is also the interim associate dean of the Center for Media and Design at Santa Monica
College and the president of the national Society of Professional Journalists.
Ferris Kawar: For the past 20 years Ferris has been a change agent, using his degree in Marketing,
and subsequent experience at an ad agency, to promote sustainable practices to individuals,
businesses and institutions. As a sustainability professional, Ferris has experience
teaching sustainability workshops, developing climate-related media, researching and
publishing city guides to green business, and serving as Recycling Specialist for
the City of Burbank. Ferris is currently the Sustainability Project Manager for Santa
Monica College where he gets to work with students, faculty and staff to keep the
institution’s sustainability leadership position strong among the community colleges
in California.
Anthony McKinzy: An all-round radio talent with over 28 years in the industry. He has worked in numerous markets with experience as a “Radio Personality, Radio Production Manager, Imaging Director, Podcast Producer and as a Voiceover Talent”. His work is heard on radio stations throughout the United States as well as abroad.
Anthony was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Served our country as a United States Marine and a proud graduate of Morehouse College with a Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring in English.