Episode Doing Business in the Bayview: Pt 1

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Andrea Baker consulting events, April Spears of Auntie April’s and Barbara Ockel and Bayview Opera House

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“The intention was always to create an opportunity, for our Black and Brown micro businesses through a racial and social equity lens”

This episode was first broadcast on KCSF in 2015 as part of our hour long show format and includes three interviews from Bayview community leaders. Welcome to Part One of Doing Business In the Bayview. This episode is focused on economic and community development efforts being executed by community members in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

The Bayview community is experiencing gentrification which in turn is pushing out some of its longtime residents and changing the face of the community. Our show features Community members discussing how they are working together to both develop and execute economic and community development solutions; while retaining Bayview’s unique blend of culture and history.

Andrea Baker, Consulting

Andrea Baker Consulting has worked in neighborhoods in San Francisco and around the Bay Area for over ten years in the areas of economic and community development.  

Andrea Baker Consulting provides business attraction, retention, and technical support, as well as community development through event planning and production. Our ongoing collaboration with community stakeholders has earned us the trust of local businesses and communities, allowing us to work more proactively in identifying and providing solutions to various challenges.

Andrea Baker Consulting provides program development and community outreach to both for-profit and nonprofit developments in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Andrea Baker Consulting is LBE Certified and a City Vendor. The firm also partners with 3S, a Consulting firm that Andrea Baker, the Principal, co-founded with Amy Lee, Kate McGee, Michie Wong and Susanne Ice.

For more information about Andrea Baker Consulting please email pooja@andreabakerconsulting.com

April Spears, Auntie April’s

Auntie April’s Chicken, Waffles, & Soul Food Restaurant is located in the heart of San Francisco’s Bayview district. More than just chicken and waffles, we serve home-style comfort food that will fill both your stomach and your soul. Signature dishes include the red velvet waffle, Lay-Lay’s fried chicken dinner, Olivia’s oxtail, and Auntie April’s Award Winning Shrimp-N-Grits. All of our dishes are pork-free. “My goal is to build my community and preserve African American legacy businesses in the community, and I want many of us to work and stay her as long as possible”. April has recently opened Cafe Envy SF in the Bayview

Barbra Ockel

Barbara has been leading the Bayview Opera House since 2009. She has a strong arts and business background that has enabled her to develop the Bayview Opera House into the strong and sustainable organization it is today. She has been able to attract major artistic collaborators, such as A.C.T., the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and others. She has also greatly expanded and diversified funding sources.

Bayview Opera House, Inc. (BVOH) was founded in 1989 to run programs at our namesake building. The San Francisco Arts Commission had purchased and renovated the facility in the 1970's for use as a community cultural center along with four other centers in disadvantaged neighborhoods. By the end of 80's the commission came to the conclusion that it was best to have each center run by a local group to provide programming instead of the commission itself running programs. BVOH received its 501(c)3 status in 1992.

BVOH provides opportunities to engage in the arts for a community with a long history of disinvestment, creates a sense of belonging and community ownership of the only significant cultural resource in the neighborhood, maintains inclusiveness of the traditional population in the light of gentrification, and provides educational and employment opportunities.

Our mission is to serve as the focal point for Art and Culture in the Bayview Hunters Point community by providing accessible, diverse, and high-quality arts education, cultural programs and community events in a safe environment and to employ the arts to support aspirational values, hope and passion, and to inspire the self-confidence and self-esteem needed to be successful, especially for our youth.

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