Suzanne LaFetra

Thinking Ahead

One local inventor says it’s the coffee that makes high-tech types so smart around here. Pass the java, please—and meet a trio of East Bay brainiacs who are busy making your life (or your kid’s, or your great-aunt Irma’s) easier, richer in human connection—and happier.

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Faces of the East Bay

In the Philanthropic Swim

In the Philanthropic Swim

Rockridge residents John Bliss and Kim Thompson may live far removed the gritty flats of East and West Oakland. But this philanthropic couple see themselves as one with the citizens of Oakland, particularly those who are struggling financially, and they’re leading a campaign to get their “financially blessed” peers to invest in the community like they have by funding city programs to teach kids how to swim.