 Hi, I am Dr. Rachel Brahinsky and I want to tell you about a People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a social justice history of the region written in the shape of a guidebook. Alexander Tarr and I wrote the book together with essays contributed by a wonderful group of geographers and public scholars who take you on an inspiring journey from Oakland and the East Bay to Silicon Valley in the South Bay up to our beloved San Francisco and even to Wine Country in the North Bay. We cover a lot from social movements to unsung heroes to the true stories behind local myths. We emphasize a multi-racial history as a core fact of life in the Bay and our choice of sites was definitely influenced by the racial justice struggles of our time. The book is packed with photographs and maps to help you see the landscape and its people in a new way. You can use it as a literal guidebook, but it's also designed to work as a virtual guide maybe from home. And for students of local history you can view each site as a doorway into your own research projects with hundreds of places and people to study further maybe in the library. So please check it out and do get in touch you can find me at the University of San Francisco where I teach urban studies and politics. Thanks.