Ninna Gaensler-Debs
Uncuffed Co-DirectorNinna Gaensler-Debs is the co-director of Uncuffed, the award-winning radio training program and podcast produced by incarcerated people in California prisons in collaboration with KALW Public Media. Uncuffed offers professional training to people in the carceral system so they can be empowered to tell their own stories.
Through the radio and podcast training programs, participants share their experiences to create dialogue and challenge stereotypes, develop job skills, and inspire change. In her role, Ninna helps guide the program’s editorial vision and leads its core work—from developing and teaching audio workshops inside prisons to supporting the continued growth of Uncuffed’s programming. Ninna has spent the past 15 years in radio as a reporter, editor, producer, and teacher, with work featured on NPR, WIRED, 99% Invisible, Snap Judgment, and other national outlets.
She has taught audio production in classrooms and at conferences worldwide, and is dedicated to creating opportunities for storytellers who have historically been excluded from major media outlets.
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In the year since the pandemic caused most prisons to shut their gates to visitors, people have not been able to see their incarcerated friends and family. So, some turned to letter writing.
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Less than a week ago, Chanthon Bun was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison. He had been granted parole and was waiting to get out. But two things stood in… -
Protesters gathered outside San Quentin, Sunday, to demand local officials take action to address the skyrocketing numbers of COVID-19 cases inside the… -
Audio Postcard: West Coast Ports Shutdown / COVID-19 In California Prisons Continues To Raise Concerns / Racial Justice Reform Happening In Sacramento… -
In this Audiograph, we’re headed for the South Bay, to go behind the scenes of a famously haunted mansion.Click the audio player above to listen to the… -
The San Francisco Immigration Defense Unit is a team of eight lawyers with the public defender’s office who represent people threatened with deportation.… -
CrosscurrentsThe San Francisco Immigration Defense Unit is a team of eight lawyers with the public defender’s office who represent people threatened with deportation.…
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From our Audiograph archives:On the south side of San Francisco, a performance is taking place. It's an annual tradition, in a transformed arena off… -
It’s been just over a year since a number of fires devastated areas of Sonoma, Napa, and other northern counties. The Tubbs fire, which began in… -
Affordable housing is on the ballot everywhere this election, and wine country is no exception. Measure F is on the Napa City ballot, and proposes…
