How Inclusive Are You?

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How Inclusive Are You?

To learn how to foster inclusivity, here is some suggested reading from Tricia Montalvo Timm of Scotts Valley: • “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other

Conversations about Race” by Beverly

Daniel Tatum, PhD • “Biased: Uncovering the Hidden

Prejudice that Shapes What We See,

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Think, and Do” by Jennifer Eberhart,

PhD • “How to Be an Anti-Racist” by Ibrahim

X. Kendi • “So You Want to Talk About Race” by

Ijeoma Oluo • “me and white supremacy” by Layla F.

Saad • “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for

White People to Talk about Racism” by Robin DiAngelo • “Waking Up White, and Finding

Myself in the Story of Race” by Debby

Irving • “The Sum of Us: What Racism Cost

Everyone and How We Can Prosper

Together” by Heather McGhee •••

Tricia Montalvo Timm is the former General Counsel and Executive Sponsor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Looker Data Sciences, Inc. where she led the company in a $2.6 billion acquisition by Google. She is currently a board member

“Hunger Fighter” from page 17

For Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, volunteers came to the farm for a day of service.

Seeing the need, Ganzhorn has been working for 20 years to move the farm to the Pogonip, a 640-acre greenbelt in Santa Cruz where decades ago the affluent enjoyed polo playing and skeet shooting. The goal is to triple the size of the farm, with room for fruit trees, and more varieties of vegetables and herbs. The committee supporting this effort has raised more than $3 million to fund the buildings, farm and infrastructure.

Ganzhorn has persisted despite hiccups (such as lead in the soil left by skeet shooters) and stayed true to her vision. She can collaborate with Alice Waters, famous for opening Chez Panisse, one day, and help a trainee with a housing application the next.

As her nomination for the award says, “Darrie not only feeds people via produce but feeds their spirit as well.” n

and investor and has a passion for creating spaces of belonging.

“Mock Trial” from page 16

The medical examiner will testify to the severe lethality of the snake’s venom and the unlikelihood the snake crawled by itself into the mailbox through a mail slot.

The sheriff’s deputy will testify to finding snake-handling items and books about desert snakes in Cobey’s home, as well as fingerprints of Cobey, Smith, and one other neighbor on Smith’s mailbox.

The defense argues that Jamie Cobey lacked the specific intent for firstdegree murder, the sudden quarrel or heat of passion needed for voluntary manslaughter, and the act of placing the rattlesnake inside the mailbox.

Defense witnesses include a herpetologist who will testify that other circumstances superseded the causal link between the bite and Smith’s death, especially Smith’s willful refusal to seek medical attention. The herpetologist will also testify that the snake more than likely squeezed itself into the mailbox.

Another tenant of Smith will testify to Cobey’s even-tempered character and lack of hostility toward Smith before Smith’s death. A different neighbor and friend of Cobey will testify to Cobey’s habit of “cooling off” after outrageous actions by Smith, as well as the common knowledge about rattlesnakes crawling into mailboxes. Finally, Jamie Cobey will deny placing the snake in the mailbox and will testify that the items found by the sheriff’s deputy were everyday items for desert horticulturalists.

The question is whether Erik Smith’s use of a smart camera provided by law enforcement to capture an image of snakefeeding tongs on the property of Jamie Cobey constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment and therefore required a search warrant, or whether it fell outside the warrant. n