The Tidalwaves swim club has been in Marin for 40 years, giving lessons and taking part in competitive meets. (Tidalwaves via BCN)

Marin County has always struggled with issues of equity, being among the three wealthiest counties in the state. But a current struggle a nonprofit recreation organization says it is having with the College of Marin exemplifies the problem, they said, and one of its directors would like to see some meaningful change.  

Liz Foley is the co-president of the Tidalwaves Swim Team, a nonprofit, recreational competitive swimming organization for children. Tidalwaves depends on access to the swimming pool at the College of Marin’s Kentfield location, which is smack dab in the center of the tony enclaves of Kentfield and Ross and adjacent to another wealthy ZIP code, Greenbrae. But not everyone in these towns is rich. Tidalwaves is available to some working class and immigrant families there, Foley said.  

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Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.