was at an event the other day at Autodesk and it's a company a lot of us know they're involved in so many things. But as an example, it's

tell us a little bit about Earn and Learn and what the organization is doing. So while I was working at the Workforce Development Board,

Let's get local and talk about Walnut Creek for a minute. It's been about a year since we've the people of Walnut Creek have voted in

Jared Esch, the host of The Capstone Conversation. Today, we are joined by not one, but two awesome women from the city of Walnut Creek. And

I am joined by Christopher Whitmore of Richmond Promise. And Chris, first, tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to

What is the Richmond Promise and what are your goals with the organization in the community? Absolutely. So Richmond Promise is a post

mentioned earlier, the Diablo Valley Tech Conference that was held and in it, there was a large conversation of in the Diablo region, how do

to this episode of The Capstone Conversation. I am your host, Jared Ash. Today, we are joined by Terri Kilgore from the city of Walnut

I want to pivot to more about this homeless initiative. You guys are working on the JPA, right? Talk about some of the specific steps or

pivot and talk about downtown Fairfield. You guys have a lot going on. I just had economic development cause I do some economic development,

Let's talk about transportation taxes, right? Cause you talked about we're moving to a zero emission vehicle. So nobody's buying gas, maybe

welcome to the Capstone Conversation. I'm your host, Jared Ash. I'm joined by Tim Hale, the head of the Contra Costa Transit Authority,

the thing that's on my mind is I have three young daughters, right, all under the age of nine, is how do I teach them to be open minded,

Councilman Wilk, let's talk about what happened in June. What has spurred this message of hate? We know that there was a rise in anti

Hi, I'm Jared Ash with the Capstone Conversation. I'm here with Councilwoman Norma Martinez -Rubin from the city of Pinole in Contra Costa

I do a lot of economic development consulting, helping a number of cities, a number of business improvement districts grow, and a lot of the

going to introduce Ed DelBaccaro of TRI Commercial Real Estate. Why are we talking to a commercial broker? Part of that is because for