Soros Justice Fellowships
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JoAnn Mar
2007 A grant to produce "The California Prison Crisis," a one-hour radio documentary that will explore California's overcrowded prisons. The program will also address the root causes of prison overcrowding and discuss proposed policy solutions to the crisis. Mar is an award-winning radio journalist and has produced many documentaries and feature reports over the last 20 years. She has produced programs independently, and for national and international news networks such as National Public Radio, Voice of America, Pacifica Radio, and the Charles Osgood File on the CBS Radio Network, among others. Mar's most recent documentary "Crime Pays: A Look at Who's Getting Rich from the Prison Boom" received the 2005 George Polk award. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and received her law degree from Syracuse University. As a law student, she worked for two years in the law school's prisoners' rights clinic. Upon graduation, she worked as a housing rights attorney at several Legal Aid Societies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mar is currently on staff at KALW-FM, a public radio station in San Francisco. Berkeley, CA | 1 Year | |
