KQED • 14th November 2025 Love You for You Our Love You for You series features conversations between trans and nonbinary youth from across California and the people in their lives who love and mentor them: parents, grandparents, siblings and others.
Snap Judgment • 15th January 2025 Fire Escape Bonus episodes from Fire Escape, exploring women fighting fires from behind bars.
Snap Judgment • 1st October 2020 The Hitchhiker's Guide to America A man walks off the side of a California highway, deep into the patchy grassland, to build a life away from the rest of the world.
KALW • 10th August 2020 One Richmond Family Rides Out The Pandemic On A Converted School Bus In the third month of shelter in place, some people are anxious to go outside and see friends. Others have to think about where they’ll park their home each night and how to get clean water for showers. Constance Johnson and her kids have been riding out the pandemic on a converted school bus in Richmond.
NPR • 3rd August 2022 "As Russians approach his town, 'the cat must still be fed.'" A hyperlocal news site in Red Hook, N.Y. posts a job opening. A journalist in Ukraine applies. And what readers think of as "local news" is going to change.
NPR • 3rd February 2023 Ukraine: The Handoff In Part 1 of our series, we followed the surreptitious journey of abortion pills into Ukraine in the early months after the Russian invasion.In this second part, Rough Translation host Gregory Warner and reporter Katz Laszlo land in Lviv, Ukraine, on a fall night during a citywide blackout, to continue following the pills, and find out about the doctors and patients who needed them.
NPR • 20th January 2023 Ukraine: Under The Counter In the weeks following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a young doctor in Germany read that abortion pills were urgently needed. She knew that the pills, mifepristone and misoprostol, are considered essential medications, and are legal in Ukraine. But getting the life-saving drugs into a country at war meant getting creative. So Vicki and her boyfriend Ari called on friends and strangers to pull off a high-stakes medical mission that unfolded in a legal gray zone.
NPR • 15th April 2022 The Scarf and the Snuffbox The Scarf and the SnuffboxIn the early days of the war against Ukraine, standing on the street in Russia with a "no war" sign was illegal. But what about holding up a blank piece of paper or an image of four ballerinas? Rather than staying quiet, Russian anti-war protesters are developing new ways to resist through coded messages.In this episode we bring you a conversation with Alexandra Arkhipova, an anthropologist who studies, collects and shares instances of "semiotic war" in a country wh
The New York Times • 21st September 2020 An Update on Project Roomkey in Tuolumne County The stability Old Oak Ranch provided to several dozen people, including Ms. Nadolsky, vanished in a matter of hours just as a resurgence in coronavirus infections swept through California in June.