More than 200 people filled St Teresa’s Church last month to celebrate the neighborhood and snack on Goat Hill Pizza and Loard’s Ice Cream. Featured was a conversation between Goat Hill co-owner Philip De Andrade and former District 10 Supervisor Sophie Maxwell. Maxwell’s son Rama’s death from Hodgkins lymphoma propelled her environmental justice work, including successfully collaborating to shutter the Hunters Point and Potrero power stations. The Sophie Maxwell Building, consisting of workforce housing, is under construction at the Power Station in Dogpatch.
Connie Hale talked with her hula teacher, McArthur fellow Patrick Makuakane, who has lived on Potrero Hill for 25 years and played an important role in keeping traditional hula vital while innovating through his school, Na Lei Hulu i ka Wekiu, which means ‘Many-feathered Wreaths at the Summit’. He calls his approach ‘hula mua’: ‘hula forward’.
Chaitanya Tondepu 
Mark Steensland 
Stephanie Lam