Gia'na Garel is a writer, producer, filmmaker, composer and entertainment consultant based in New York City. From 2005 to 2009, she co-hosted an entertainment-oriented

Air America Radio Air America (formerly Air America Radio and Air America Media) was an American radio network specializing in progressive talk radio. It was on the air from March 2004 to January 2010. The network was founded as a left wing alternative to counter ...

program, '' On the Real'', with pioneer rap artist Chuck D. In addition to screenwriting, she is author of the essay "The Sound of Freedom", co-wrote the essay "Record of Failure" with Chuck D, and had a show transcript: DMC; published in the 2006 ''New York Times'' bestselling anthology ''The Air America Playbook...'' alongside such personalities as Rachel Maddow,

Al Franken Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He gained fame as a writer and performer on the television comed ...

Janeane Garofalo Janeane Marie Garofalo ( ; born September 28, 1964) is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on the now-defunct Air America Radio's ''The Majority Report''. Garofalo began her career as a stand-up comedian and became a cast member on ...

David Bender David Bender is an American political activist, author and former host of the talk radio show '' Politically Direct'' on Air America Radio. Political activism David Bender's five-decade career as a political activist began at the age of twelve w ...

, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She was mentioned in a roll call of female filmmakers in the books ''Black American Cinema'' by Manthia Diawara; and in ''Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, & Conversations'' by

Toni Cade Bambara Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade (March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995), was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor. Biography Early life and education Miltona Mirkin Cade was bor ...

– edited by

Toni Morrison Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically acclaimed '' So ...

. Traveling internationally from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, she compiled audio documentaries and interviews, such as with

Holocaust survivor Holocaust survivors are people who survived the Holocaust, defined as the persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies before and during World War II in Europe and North Africa. There is no universally accep ...

Eva Kor on forgiveness and world peace, for her indie radio segments—"Everywhere with Gia’na Garel", in addition to others on music. As of 2014, she also began announcing and voicing for Progressive Voices Network.

References

African-American radio personalities American radio personalities Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American people {{US-radio-bio-stub