Interview of Isaiah Phillips by Meda Okelo. Topics include: moving to EPA when young; local businesses; grammar school experiences at James Flood Elementary including 4th grade teacher Ms. Walker and his first white male teacher; culture shock and experiences at Menlo-Atherton High School; how it could have been better at M-A; community changes at the start of the drug epidemic; Sonya-Clark Herrara, Eugene Clark and others at EPA Mural, Music & Arts – his gateway to becoming an artist; working at Live in Peace and its role in establishing EPACenter Arts; Mary Hofsted and John & Marsha Goldman and the creation of its building; mistakes made in the early days of EPACenter; Youth Art & Music Festival around 2014; current involvement in a local basketball tournament; recent work in the arts including a fellowship from Stanford; and thoughts about the future of EPA.