Distributed by Reveal from the Center of Investigative Reporting, December 2023.
Aired August 2023
Distributed by KALW’s Crosscurrents. Listen here: https://www.kalw.org/news/2021-10-18/finding-housing-during-a-pandemic
Distributed by KALW and The Spiritual Edge. Listen here
This story was aired on Sacred Steps, a series from KALW's The Spiritual Edge produced in collaboration with USC's Center for Religion and Civic Culture. Listen here
In other parts of the world, the concept of lockdown isn’t new at all — being forced to stay inside a room, a building, or a closed territory is a familiar experience. What can we learn from people who have been under lockdown before, whether in a war zone, in prison or another setting?
During quarantine, Team Snap is bringing you pieces of wisdom, hope, and defiance from people who have experienced lockdown.
This is an ongoing series. Listen here.
At school, Alia Volz was a weird kid without a lot of friends. She had a secret... after school, she’d go home and help her mom make and sell weed brownies all over San Francisco. But one day, Alia discovered something about her mom’s business that turned her secret into a burden that was far more painful than she could have imagined.
Produced by Shaina Shealy, original score by Doug Stewart
April 18, 2020
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When Heidi Shin had her first baby, she took an entire year to care for her daughter full-time. For the most part, she loved it. But she also felt like she was losing part of herself to motherhood. So she decides to take a work trip to an island off the coast of South Korea. She comes away with an unexpected discovery about motherhood and herself.
Produced by Heidi Shin and Shaina Shealy, original score by Renzo Gorrio
April 9, 2020
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An explosion in the night sky of western Colorado brings townspeople out to search for something more, something… out of this world….
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In Rwanda 26-year-old Christian has turned his mom’s backyard into an oyster mushroom cultivation lab, with mushrooms sprouting here and there. And he’s not alone. For a country still known internationally for its 1994 genocide, Rwanda’s booming mushroom industry reflects hope for a brighter future. In Rwanda, is a better tomorrow just a mushroom farm away?
Distributed by America’s Test Kitchen: Proof
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When Dean Issacharoff was a commander in the Israeli Defense Forces, he patrolled the Palestinian city of Hebron, and later fought in Gaza. Then, after he got home from the army, Dean’s decision to speak out about his own violent actions came back to haunt him in a twisted turn of events.
Sensitive listeners - please be advised this story contains images of war and violence.
Produced for Snap Judgment by Shaina Shealy, original score by Pat Mesiti-Miller.
A special thanks to the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust, and KALW’s Spiritual Edge podcast - this story would not have been possible without their support. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of these organizations.
Distributed by Snap Judgment’s Spooked. Listen on luminary here: https://luminarypodcasts.com/listen/snap-judgment-and-wnyc-studios/snap-judgment-presents-spooked-710/the-torment/e659c792-ec6e-4a97-880b-fa1ecc635d68?country=US
In the small Croatian town of Vukovar, some 200 people went missing.
Years later, a group of investigators with The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia set out on an impossible task to find out who was responsible for these missing people. Go undercover with us in "Operation Little Flower".
Produced by: Shaina Shealy, Liz Mak, Adizah Eghan
Original Score: Renzo Gorrio
When Roderick turns 18, he gets a special gift from his mom... for the one thing about him, she does not love. Listen here.
Sound Design & Score: Leon Morimoto
Produced: Shaina Shealy, Mark Oppenheimer and the team at Unorthodox.
The story of a small Christian hill town in Palestine, and the 18 cows that kind of, almost, but never really, changed the course of its future.
Producer: Shaina Shealy
Original Score: Leon Morimoto
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Travel to the occupied Palestinian territories and meet a man who wanted to protest the Israeli occupation by starting a purely Palestinian business. His answer was to start a mushroom farm, but after initial success he ran into unexpected challenges.
Produced by Stan Alcorn and edited by Jen Chien. Reported by Julia Simon, Shaina Shealy and Stan Alcorn.
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Than Toe Aung faced harassment and discrimination as a Muslim in Myanmar his whole life. Now he's using slam and spoken word poetry to speak out against hate and unite Buddhist and Muslims in the city of Yangon, Myanmar.
Distributed by PRI’s The World January 23, 2019
Eric was an invincible 19 year old — a star athlete at the peak of his career as the goalkeeper for Rwanda’s most beloved football team, Rayon Sports F.C. And he says he was more concerned about the game than what was going on beyond the football field.
For WBUR’s Only A Game
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Reported by Shaina Shealy with support from the International Women’s Media Foundation
A story about Nandar Gyawali, getting her period in rural Shan State, Myanmar and so much more
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"Bad Hair Cut" - When the man in charge of a small, insular northern Ohio town wreaks havoc on his followers, a young Amish boy with a passion for good hair tries to clean up the mess.
Producer: Shaina Shealy
Sound Design: Renzo Gorrio
distributed by PRI’s The World, August 13, 2018
Facebook is Myanmar’s main digital communication platform. In recent months, UN investigators, US senators and Myanmar civil society leaders have blamed Facebook for fueling ethnic tension and violence against Myanmar’s Muslim minority, including the Rohingya. But many women in Myanmar are also using the platform to organize and amplify their voices as they call on parliament to issue harsher punishments for rapists.
"No Voy a Tener Nietos" - Maria’s mother always wanted a son. And when Maria had a son, of her own, her mother didn’t get enough time with him. So when she died, she made sure to came back to be with her beloved nieto.
Produced by Shaina Shealy
Original score by Renzo Gorrio
Distributed by Public Radio International's The World
Teklit Michael started running with Eritrea’s fastest athletes when he was just 14 years old. His plan: to compete in the 2012 London Olympics.
When a rising high school track star in Eritrea, East Africa, is arrested under the military dictatorship, he realizes he might have a way out....run.
Producer: Shaina Shealy
I reported on Filipino food in Tel Aviv’s central bus station for Milk Street Radio. Listen to the story here.
Counted: An Oakland Story is a a yearlong look at the people lost to Oakland's violence. During 2017, a team of Snap Judgment producers learned about Oakland's homicide victims, their families and communities.
Visit oaklandstory.org for more interviews, photos, and illustrations.
CREDITS:
"Counted: An Oakland Story" was produced by Adizah Eghan, Anna Sussman, Shaina Shealy, Jonathan Jones, Pat Mesiti-Miller, Nancy Lopez, Jazmin Aguilera, Eliza Smith, and Pendarvis Harshaw.
Co-hosts of "Counted: An Oakland Story" are Adizah Eghan and Daryle Allums
Senior Producer Anna Sussman
Original Concept by Jonathan Jones
Original Score by Pat-Mesiti-Miller, Leon Morimoto, and Renzo Gorrio
Photography by Cinque Mubarak
Artwork by Abner Hauge, Teo Ducot, and Shaina Shealy
Additional production by Teo Ducot and Liz Mak
Special thanks to Fantastic Negrito who contributed music from the album “The Last Days of Oakland”
Website by Teo Ducot, Jeremy Rue, and Shaina Shealy
Executive Producers: Mark Ristich and Glynn Washington
Airlifted out of Baghdad into Israel, Avraham was about to get a new life in a new land…
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Producer: Shaina Shealy
Original Score: Renzo Gorrio
Tameer is part of an ethnic minority in northern Israel called Druze. When he is struck on the head as a young boy he inherits an entire new lifetime of memories.
Distributed by Snap Judgment
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Original Score: Renzo Gorrio
Producer: Shaina Shealy
Distributed Snap Judgment
When Yehiya gets thrown in jail for arming the Palestinian resistance, he and his wife, Sameera, have to find a way to keep their family growing.
Eliza Smith provided editorial assistance for this piece.
Original Score and Sound Design: Leon Morimoto
Distributed by PRI’s The World
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I co-produce 8 Gates: Portraits from Jerusalem's Old City, a podcast by Convivencia Network, available on iTunes
Distributed by Milk Street Radio
Nomadic camel herders in northwest India gear up to market caml milk to one of India's largest beverage brands.
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