Bay Made showcase: Peer Talk

KALW | By Ben Trefny

Published June 5, 2025 at 6:00 AM PDT

Bob Fisher and Peer Talk hosts at KALW's live event space in Downtown San Francisco.

This conversation aired in the June 5, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents.

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Today, we bring you an excerpt of a live event put on by KALW. Peer Talk is a youth leadership and civic engagement program created by 7th grade students at Willie Brown Middle School, in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. It’s a part of Beyond the Fog Radio. At this event, middle schoolers were asked to interview a billionaire, former CEO of Gap Inc., Bob Fisher.

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Ben Trefny

Ben joined KALW in 2004. As Executive News Editor and then News Director, he helped the news department win numerous regional and national awards for long- and short-form journalism. He also helped teach hundreds of audio producers, many of whom work with him at KALW, today.

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