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 coun ...

program, '' On the Real'', with pioneer rap artist

Chuck D Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, best known as the leader and frontman of the hip hop group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav. Chuck D is also a me ...

. 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 Rachel Anne Maddow ( ; born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. She hosts '' The Rachel Maddow Show'', a weekly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special event ...

Al Franken Alan Stuart Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American politician, comedian, and actor who served from 2009 to 2018 as a United States senator from Minnesota. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he worked as an ...

Janeane Garofalo Janeane Garofalo ( ; born September 28, 1964) is an American comedian, actress, and former co-host on Air America Radio's '' The Majority Report''. The accolades she has received include nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Act ...

, David Bender, 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. Early life and education Miltona Mirkin Cade was born in Harlem, ...

– 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 and editor. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically accl ...

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

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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.

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