"Beat of the Bay," KFOG’s public interest radio program directed by radio personality Peter Finch, featured ScholarMatch this morning! The morning piece featured an interview with ScholarMatch students, Pedro Perez and Dorrian Lewis, and ScholarMatch staff, Miel Alegre and Vickie Vertiz.

Pedro, a first-generation college student, discussed his desire to complete a BA in criminal justice at Sonoma State University, after taking a year off from school because he could not pay his tuition bill. Pedro needs about $3,000 to make his college degree possible. To help Pedro, click here here.

Dorrian cited her success at City College of San Francisco due to the full funding that ScholarMatch donors provided, and how she first learned about ScholarMatch by participating in the Best American Non-Required Reading workshop with Dave Eggers. Our team members, Miel Alegre, ScholarMatch Executive Director, and Vickie Vertiz, Program Director for College Success, talked about how ScholarMatch began, about our innovative website, and our college access workshops.

Peter also featured a clip from an interview with Nínive Calegari and Dave Eggers about their ideas on how to keep good teachers in public schools, with regards to their book, Teachers Have It Easy.

For our San Francisco friends, the podcast will air between 5:30- 6AM tomorrow, Saturday, June 18, 2011, on KFOG (104.5 FM), and KNBR (680 AM), and 5-5:30AM on The Bone (107.7 FM).

Thank you to Peter and KFOG for shedding light on our amazing students. We’re all Fogheads here at ScholarMatch!