Left to right: Bruce Sievers, Jim Quay, Julie Fry, Ralph Lewin at California Humanities’ 40th Anniversary Celebration, November 2015. Photo: Carlos Torres.
We are pleased to present our 2023 publication, A State of Open Mind, a compilation of five decades of California stories, people, and places, as told through oral history interviews with the humanists at the helm of California Humanities since 1974. With contributions by Bruce Sievers, Jim Quay, Ralph Lewin, and Julie Fry. Forward by Mas Masumoto and Afterword by Nikiko Masumoto.