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Noelle Hanrahan Speaking Engagements:

Noelle Hanrahan is an award winning investigative journalist and director of Prison Radio, which challenges mass incarceration and racism by airing the voice of men and women in prison. Since 1992 she has recorded the commentaries of Mumia Abu-Jamal. She initiated and produced Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal, (Addison Wesley 1995). In 2000 she edited Mumia's latest book of essays "All Things Censored" (Seven Stories). Hanrahan has won three Golden Reel Awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Currently she produces "Dispatches From Death Row"¨, Mumia Abu-Jama's weekly radio commentaries on 100 radio stations. She is a graduate of Stanford University, and received her degree in Gender Race and Class Studies. She lives the SF Bay View Hunter's Point district with her eight-year-old daughter Miranda.

photo caption: Newsroom Anchor Noelle Hanrahan Channel 29 San Francisco

NOELLE HANRAHAN
PO BOX 411074
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94141
415-648-4505; INFO@PRISONRADIO.ORG

EXPERIENCE
On Air:

  • Host, Newsroom on SF Access Channel 29, Cable TV SF present. Monthly
  • Producer / Reporter, FSRN syndicated weekly to 100 stations. Present
  • Producer /Reporter, HardKnock Radio, KPFA Radio. Present.
  • Co-host/Assoc. Producer Flashpoints: 5-6pm 94.1 FM KPFA's daily hour long drivetime investigative newsmagazine.12/00-9/02 Production: Highlights 1998-04
  • Production:
  • Producer, "Dispatches From Death Row" audio essays by Mumia Abu-Jamal, FSRN aired on over 100 radio stations worldwide.
  • Producer, "A Prison Without Bars: A Ranch Where Hope Grows" 29min Documentary on kids in prison. National FSRN Memorial Day newscast. Exclusive and rare voices of 10 incarcerated youth. 5/26/03
  • Producer "Know Your Rights" 2003 narrated by Peter Coyote 14:35mins NFCB Golden Reel Award winner. Narrated in Farsi by Bella Ramazan-nia, directed by Hossein Khosrowjah . Arabic and Punjabi versions are in production.
  • Producer "175 Progress Drive" CD recording (AT 2001) new and archival recordings by Mumia Abu-Jamal with music by Zach de la Rocha, 911 Allstars, I was born with Two Tongues, includes the voice of Peter Coyote, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jimmy Carter, Bob Marley, Hugh Masekela, Michael Franti, Martin Espada and Assata Shakur, etc.
  • Editor & Producer, All Things Censored Book with the compact disc ¡§Banned¡¨ released 2001 Seven Stories Press. Essays of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Foreword by Alice Walker.
  • Producer & Editor ¡Revolutionary Ecology: The Legacy of Judi Bari¡¨ 58 min radio documentary 2002 Narrated by Ruby Dee.
  • Opened Digital and Analog Production Studio, 522 Valencia St.
  • Producer, ATC, Vol. 1 2001 AT. Features the voices of Helen Prejean, Dorothy Allison, Cornel West, Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Joycelyn Elders, William Kunstler, Manning Marable, John Edgar Wideman 2/00.
  • Initiator, Researcher, and smuggled out of prison, Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Addison Wesley), translated in 7 languages 5/95. 

Education

 Stanford University, Palo Alto, California B.A. 1986, Individually Designed

 

 

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Community Service

  • WAVE Award, Newsroom Best                            Community News Program, 2005
  • Nor Cal, Emmy Nomination Newsroom,                         Public Affairs show: 2004
  • Hometown Video Award;  for The VOICE 2004
  • Golden Reel NFCB Public Service 2002 
  • Golden Reel NFCB National Documentary 1998
  • Golden Reel Local News Coverage 1993, NFCB
  • Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award 9/96, awarded to 2 seniors at commencement, Stanford University for outstanding service to the University.
  • Cap & Gown, Women’s Honorary Society, Stanford University, 1986.
  • Full Athletic Scholarship, Stanford University, 1982-1985.
  • Vice President, SF Building Inspection Commission appointed by Board of Supervisors