Tue September 16, 2025
Alison Owings & Del Seymour with Kevin Fagan - Mayor of the Tenderloin
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In Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco's Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour--whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping, and drug dealing. Once sober, he started Tenderloin Walking Tours and later Code Tenderloin, the remarkable organization teaching homeless...and other marginalized people how to get and keep a job. Joined in conversation with award-winning journalist Kevin Fagan.
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In Mayor of the Tenderloin, journalist Alison Owings slips behind the cold statistics and sensationalism surrounding San Francisco's Tenderloin to reveal a harrowing and life-affirming account of Del Seymour--whose addiction led him into eighteen years of homelessness, pimping, and drug dealing. Once sober, he started Tenderloin Walking Tours and later Code Tenderloin, the remarkable organization teaching homeless...and other marginalized people how to get and keep a job. Joined in conversation with award-winning journalist Kevin Fagan.
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