Jorge Ruiz de Velasco interviewed on KQED-FM, August 10, 2012
“One of the important things the select committee did was that it held hearings in Oakland, in Los Angeles, in Fresno, out in the Coachella Valley, and it proceeded from two principles: One was, can we engage the people closest to the problem in real communities, both in identifying what the problem is and identifying solutions? And then taking that as an opportunity to identify real innovative practices that are going on in Oakland and Los Angeles that we can talk about today—places that are having results.”