Flor Unmuted
Flor Unmuted
Podcast Description
Flor Unmuted is where the voices they try to silence get amplified. Hosted by Flor, community organizer and former candidate, this podcast unpacks what's happening in our neighborhoods, in our laws, and in the systems built to forget us. No spin. No fluff. Just real talk with the people doing the local work. We're not muted anymore.
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Content Themes
The podcast covers themes of politics, culture, and community, focusing on topics such as immigrant rights, local election dynamics, and systemic injustices. Specific episodes include discussions on the hidden costs of immigrant detention featuring Oliver Ma and the effects of ICE raids on Kern County with Inderraj Singh. The content aims to provide a platform for hard conversations that challenge the status quo.
Flor Unmuted is where the voices they try to silence get amplified. Hosted by Flor, community organizer and former candidate, this podcast unpacks what’s happening in our neighborhoods, in our laws, and in the systems built to forget us.
No spin. No fluff. Just real talk with the people doing the local work.
We’re not muted anymore.
Most voters will never attend a Kern County Board of Education meeting. Many probably couldn’t tell you what the board actually does.
But the decisions made there can reach students across Kern County — particularly students navigating expulsion appeals, interdistrict transfers, county-run programs, special education, homelessness, transportation barriers, and other challenges that can push families deeper into the education system.
In this episode of Flor Unmuted, I sit down with Anastasia Hopper, candidate for Kern County Board of Education Trustee Area 3.
We talk about what the county board actually oversees, who trustees are ultimately responsible to, the growing influence of national culture-war politics on local education boards, special education, literacy, attendance, transportation, and the financial decisions facing county education programs.
Anastasia also talks about her experience as a special education parent, why she decided to run, what she would prioritize during her first year in office, and why she believes Area 3 is ready for new representation after more than three decades under the same trustee.
And I ask her one of the questions at the center of this race: When a trustee’s personal beliefs, the loudest parents in the room, and the best available evidence point in different directions, which one should guide the decision?
Listen to the full conversation.
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