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Sarah Shourd; Host

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Sarah Shourd is a multi-media journalist and producer based in Oakland, California. Her work combines journalistic rigor with the tools of fiction to elevate marginalized voices and help audiences engage with information outside of their geographic, cultural and online bubbles. Most recently, Shourd hosted a podcast, Of Two Minds, about divisiveness in America. Before that, she conducted a 3-year investigation into solitary confinement, interviewing over 75 prisoners across the U.S. Based on this investigation, Shourd wrote and produced a play, The BOX, which premiered in San Francisco in 2016 to sold-out audiences. She also co-authored an anthology, Hell is a Very Small Place, comprised of the stories of incarcerated Americans she collected. Shourd’s written for the New York Times, CNN, the Daily Beast,  SF Chronicle, Mother Jones, SF Magazine, Salon, Huffington Post and more. She also coauthored a book about her own imprisonment called A Sliver of Light: Three Americans in Iran, which was published by Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt in 2012. She is currently a John S. Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University, where she’s collaborating on a graphic novel. sarahshourd.com

Jeremy Dalmas; Senior Editor, Sound Engineer & Composer

​Jeremy Dalmas is a reporter, producer, engineer and composer. Jeremy reported at KALW’s Crosscurrents for 5 years; has worked with W. Kamau Bell, NPR, Marketplace, The Guardian, Vox and The Daily Beast; and co-hosted the monthly on-stage talk show Oakland Nights... Live! As a composer Jeremy has scored radio, films, performances and 13 albums of original music.
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Neda Nobari Foundation; Executive Producer

Promoting social and environmental justice through arts and education.

Contributors

Dream Corps and BIG Oakland - Office and recording space
Sara Corrigan-Gibbs - Logo design
Dan Newman - Research
Special thanks to: Robert Rosenthal, Keely Badger, Liam O’Donoghue, Lia Rose, Nisha Anand, Gus Alexander, Tyler Reinhart, Pauline Bartolone, Rob Connel, and all our wonderful guests!
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