PST with Emily Dreyfuss

Emily Dreyfuss

Booking Overview

An interview show focused on the intersection of technology, culture, politics, and San Francisco civic life, typically featuring journalists, local officials, activists, authors, cultural leaders, and people with direct experience of the issues under discussion. Credible pitches include tech and AI experts, policy specialists, civic organizers, authors, artists, and regional community leaders with a strong connection to a timely story; booking difficulty is medium because the show combines accessible local voices with notable subject-matter experts.

Metrics

Episodes: 43

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

pst@sfstandard.com

Looking for the right person? Join Podseeker to find direct host and producer contacts and manage your podcast outreach.

Host

Emily Dreyfuss - Culture editor at The San Francisco Standard and a veteran technology journalist covering the intersection of technology, culture, and power.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Direct expertise or first-hand involvement in a timely technology, political, civic, or cultural issue; relevant credentials may include leadership of a grassroots movement, public-sector work, technology or policy expertise, authorship, journalism, or leadership of a cultural organization.

Required Achievements:

Leading a civic, activist, or community initiative, Holding a relevant public-sector, technology, or cultural leadership role, Writing a timely book or memoir, Organizing notable cultural events or public campaigns

Recent Guest Discussions

Hugo Zorn - Organizing Against Flock License Plate Cameras, Youth Activism, Surveillance Concerns, And The Growth Of Deflock Sf.

Zachary Schwartz - Fighting Flock Automated License Plate Readers, Surveillance, A Related Data Breach, Youth Activism, And The Local Movement Opposing The Technology.

Claire Stapleton - Leaving Google, Corporate Culture, Employee Activism, The 2018 Walkout, And Her Memoir About Disillusionment With Big Tech.

Jacob Stensberg - The Chorus’s Pride Tribute To Dolly Parton And Her Long-standing Support For Lgbtq+ Communities And Aids-related Causes.

Angela Vincent - Dolly Parton Tribute Events, Her Influence In San Francisco, And The Local Community’s Response To Her Death.

Recent Topics

Society, Public Affairs, Technology, Public Policy, Urban Issues

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

PST with Emily Dreyfuss

An AI tutor is in SF’s classrooms. Parents say they had no idea

September 25, 2026

San Francisco public schools put an AI reading tutor called Amira in front of every K–5 student without telling parents. Host Emily Dreyfuss only found out when a substitute teacher mentioned it. Until then, she thought Amira was a real person. This week, SF Standard reporter Ezra Wallach joins Emily to explain what Amira is, how it arrived in SFUSD through a larger curriculum purchase, and why kids say it can't understand them. They dig into the biggest question parents have: what happens t...

In SF, two teenagers are leading the fight against Flock

September 18, 2026

By now you've probably heard of Flock: the license plate cameras that critics say have turned your daily commute into a surveillance network. Dozens of cities, from Santa Cruz to San Francisco, are pushing back – and in SF, two of the people leading that fight are 16-year-old Lowell High School juniors. Emily Dreyfuss talks with Zachary Schwartz and Hugo Zorn, the founder and outreach lead of DeFlock SF, about how a YouTube rabbit hole turned into a full-blown local movement. They discuss wh...

Why AI researchers are quitting – and what an ex-Googler saw first

September 16, 2026

AI company CEOs – the same people building these products – keep warning that AI could end humanity. This week it boiled over: an Anthropic researcher quit and accused his employer of endangering the world, and a current Anthropic safety lead agreed with him publicly. Host Emily Dreyfuss sits down with SF Standard tech editor Heather Kelly to explain what's really driving the AI industry's sudden wave of doomsday manifestos – regulatory capture, looming IPO paperwork, and a string of AI "misa...

Publicly listed emails

pst@sfstandard.com

Looking for the right person? Join Podseeker to find direct host and producer contacts and manage your podcast outreach.

Get your clients booked on top podcasts

Try us risk free with a FREE 3 days trial.

Start Your Free Trial

Join hundreds of PR teams using Podseeker to pitch and land bookings