KPFA - Making Contact Podcast
1) Making Contact – December 5, 2025
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for ...Show More
2) Making Contact – October 31, 2025
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for ...Show More
3) Making Contact – September 5, 2025
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for ...Show More
4) Making Contact – August 1, 2025
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for ...Show More
5) Caring Relationships: Disability and Maintaining Dignity (Encore)
The vast majority of care recipients are exclusively receiving unpaid care from a family member, friend, or neighbor. The rest receive a combination of family care and paid assistance, or exclusively ...Show More
6) Making Contact – July 4, 2025
Covering the movements, issues and people fighting for some of the most important social justice issues of our time. Hosted by Amy Gastelum, Salima Hamirani, Anita Jonhson, and Lucy Kang. Sign up for ...Show More
7) What does a Latino version of “The Bear” taste like?
On this week’s show, we explore Latino food and culture in Chicago’s historic Pilsen neighborhood and hear about how food can bring communities together. We tag along with the podcast In Confianza wit...Show More
8) Mothers, Markets, and Migration (encore)
In this weeks episode, we look at how, over six decades after the Korean War, South Korea processed the most international adoptions in history and how the demand for a domestic supply of (adoptable) ...Show More
9) A Making Contact Pride Show!
To celebrate Pride Month, we have a special show featuring stories from the Making Contact archives. We’ll revisit the Stonewall Uprising with the 1989 audio documentary Remembering Stonewall and then...Show More
10) Soul Force: The Legacy of Rev. James Lawson Jr.
A year ago, the world said goodbye to Reverend James Lawson Jr. On today’s show, we look back at the work and legacy this leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement and advocate of nonviolence, with ...Show More