Host: Bill DiFazio     This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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Phone: (212) 209-2955

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Program description

City Watch invites guests who are  involved with social, economic, political and cultural issues in New York City. Our guests give information that we hope will enable our listeners to actively participate in a more informed way.

William DiFazio

William DiFazio, Ph.D., has been Professor of Sociology at St.  John's University for 26 years. Author of books and articles, including  Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage, Longshoremen: Community  & Resistance on the Brooklyn Waterfront, The Jobless Future, co-authored  with Stanley Aronowitz, and The Game is Rigged: The Middle Classes Divided and Conquered (forthcoming). He is a board member of Hunger Action  Network New York State, and a board member of St. John's Bread & Life Soup  Kitchen. He is the Chair Elect of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association and a member of the Editorial Collective of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination.

Bich Ha Pham

Co-host Bich Ha Pham is a committed advocate for social and economic justice and works to promote equitable public policies. She worked as a legal services attorney providing civil legal representation to low-income clients before becoming an anti-poverty policy advocate. She is a Board member of World Hunger Year and is a member of the West Harlem Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program.

Brooke Richie

Co-host Brooke Richie is a committed advocate for children and families living in poverty. She is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Resilience Advocacy Project, a child advocacy organization in NYC. Brooke is on the board of Community Voices Heard and the Planned Parenthood Activist Council, and participates in numerous anti-poverty, women's rights, and child advocacy organizations throughout the State.

Mark Dunlea

Mark is a community organizer and long-term welfare rights advocate. He is a graduate of RPI and Albany Law School. He is a former Head Organizer for ACORN; researcher for the Environmental Planning Lobby; and National Field Director of the Campaign for Safe Energy. He is co-founder of New York and national Public Interest Research Group; New York State Greens; Capital District Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; Social Justice Center/Peace Offerings; and Hudson-Mohawk Independent Media Center. He is the Executive Director of Hunger Action Network.

Contributor: Andy Breslau

Executive Director, City Futures – Center for an Urban Future
212-479-3352     www.nycfuture.org

Producer: Deena Kolbert

Deena Kolbert, Executive, Leadership, Relationship and Team Coach enjoys thinking outside of the proverbial box. An Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation, an Authorized Team Diagnostic Facilitator and an Organization Relationship and Systems Coach (ORSC), Deena works with executives, partnerships and teams, exploring their unique capabilities and strengths.. By creating a common vision, she expands their leadership capacity, accelerates productivity and positivity and enhances performance. She is presently involved with working with couples on a research project.

Active in a variety of organizations, Deena has been a volunteer host/producer of City Watch and Wisdom Years on WBAI, and a working member of Pacifica Foundation's National Affiliate Task Force, and has been a long time member of Roxbury Farms - a Community Support Agriculture network. Deena is also a sculptor whose primary mediums are clay and metal.

Her web site is www.wisdomyears.com and she can be reached at 212-595-2222 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it