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-orientedAir America Radio program,On the Real, with pioneer rap artistChuck D.[1][2]
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 2006New York Times bestselling anthologyThe Air America Playbook...[3] alongside such personalities asRachel Maddow,Al Franken,Janeane Garofalo,David Bender, andRobert F. Kennedy Jr.
She was mentioned in a roll call of female filmmakers in the booksBlack American Cinema[4] byManthia Diawara;[5] and inDeep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, & Conversations[6] byToni Cade Bambara – edited byToni Morrison.[7]
Traveling internationally from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, she compiled audio documentaries and interviews, such as withHolocaust survivorEva Kor on forgiveness and world peace,[8] for her indie radio segments—"Everywhere with Gia’na Garel", in addition to others on music.[9][10]
As of 2014, she also began announcing and voicing for Progressive Voices Network.[11][12][13]
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