Ninna Gaensler-Debs
Senior Editor, San Quentin Lead Teacher, UncuffedNinna Gaensler-Debs is a reporter and editor for Crosscurrents. Since 2012, Ninna has worn a variety of hats at KALW - she was both a producer and event planner for Localore project Hear Here. Ninna also programmed and organized the Sights and Sounds live events - two in Bayview, and most recently, one in East Oakland.
Ninna also founded and directed The Litography Project, a multimedia project documenting literary history and culture in the Bay Area. She's reported for 99% Invisible, Matter, KQED, and worked on immersive audio tours for Detour.
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Update: As of January 2018, the Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for both Haiti and El Salvador. That means over 250,000…
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Pamela Voyles lost everything in the Valley Fire in Lake County, then spent two years homeless. She finally found a place — only to flee seven months…
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Hear from two of the approximately 4000 incarcerated men and women currently deployed fighting California’s wildfires. Michael Draebom’s firefighting crew…
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Since fires broke out across Sonoma County, KZST 100.1FM in Santa Rosa has transformed it into an essential news source, broadcasting information about…
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Wildfires tearing through California wine country flared up again today. They’ve destroyed hundreds more homes and other buildings and led to new…
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Since late Sunday night, an estimated 17 different fires have been devastating several counties in Northern California, including Sonoma, Napa, and…
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Bay Area comic Dhaya Lakshminarayanan has shared the stage with the likes of Marc Maron and Janeane Garofalo, and she’s a regular contributor to the…
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Thao Nguyen is known for her music, and for the band she's led for the past 10 years — Thao and the Get Down Stay Down. NPR and Paste Magazine picked her…
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"If you attack us, we fight back. We fight for our rights." John Fisher on 40 years of queer theaterWhen it came time to choose a musical to put on this summer, the team at San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros knew they wanted to pull out all the stops for…
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Saxophonist Francis Wong grew up in South San Francisco, but he’s made his mark in music far beyond his small hometown. The late jazz critic Phil Elwood…