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MARCH 2010 Joni
Mitchell It was only a matter of time that Initiative Radio producer and host Angela McKenzie would find a reason to dedicate an entire edition of the program to her all time favorite artist Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell's music has personally inspired Angela and many of the musical selections she has chosen to accompany many editions of Initiative Radio. To close out Initiative Radio's month-long spotlight on outstanding women, Angela invites listeners to kick back, relax and enjoy a full hour of Joni facts and tracks. This broadcast is welcome entertainment for current Joni fans and is also certain to win her some new ones.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kayce
Freed Jennings Kayce Freed Jennings is co-founder of The Documentary Group. Previously she was Vice President of PJ Productions, where she was also senior producer on documentaries including State of the Union and Out of Control: AIDS in Black America, a recipient of the George S. Peabody Award. Kayce began her early career in the early 1980s at ABC News in London. It was there that she first worked with Tom Yellin and Peter Jennings, the veteran newsman who became her husband in 1997. A producer for Nightline, she covered Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 1986, she relocated to ABC News' Atlanta Bureau, where she concentrated on the southern United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and national politics. Two years later, when World News Tonight with Peter Jennings launched its ground-breaking series, "The American Agenda," Kayce was one of its pioneering producers, focusing on social policy issues. The work received numerous awards. She moved back to New York City in 1989 and in 1993, re-joined Tom Yellin as a producer on his prime time news magazine Day One. When Day One ended its run, Kayce moved to 20/20, working with anchor Barbara Walters and correspondents Lynn Sherr, Deborah Roberts, Bob Brown, among others. She left ABC News to help found PJ Productions and then, in 2006, The Documentary Group. On today's program Kayce speaks with Angela McKenzie about the remarkable women in TV journalism who paved the way for her to have a successful and lengthy career in the industry; about some of her adventures and observations as an overseas journalist who witnessed some of recent history's milestones unfold; about the The Documentary Group's mission to produce engaging and edifying programs for a diverse audience and about her service to the not-for-profit organization Women In Need.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Sex Workers Project (Women's History Month Spotlight) Today's program takes Angela McKenzie to the offices of The Sex Workers Project (SWP) an organization that uses human rights and harm reduction approaches, to protect and promote the rights of individuals who engage in sex work, regardless of whether they do so by choice, circumstance, or coercion. Angela's first guest Sienna Baskin is a staff attorney at SWP who provides non-judgmental legal education, advice and representation to sex workers on issues such as housing, criminal and employment. She also advises victims of sex trafficking on a variety of immigration matters. Angela's second guest Savannah Hornback is a transgender woman whose experience in the sex worker industry includes escorting, movies and street work. Savannah explains that due to the exotic nature of transgenders, they are in very high demand as sex workers, however they face stiff competition from biological female sex workers and suffer abuse at the hands of law enforcement. In the final segment of the show, Angela airs a short interview with a veteran street worker, conducted in the streets of New York City by an affiliate of the Sex Workers Project. This interview gives an honest look at the dangers sex workers face on "the stroll."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A RocknRoots Special for Women's History Month Host Tom Boyd and co-host and special guest Bev Grant salute Women's History Month with Folk, Blues, Contemporary R&B, Rock, and more. It's a fast-moving hour of music and talk - featuring West Coast legend Barbara Dane, the powerful sound of Sweet Honey in the Rock; a salute to Rosa Parks by the Neville Brothers, the remarkable Ani DiFranco, and much more. Bev Grants own anthemic "We Were There" closes the show. Tom Boyd led RocknRoots on radio, then on the web, for more than six years. Bev Grant, who directs the Brooklyn Women's Chorus, gigs across the country with her band, Bev Grant and the Dissident Daughters. A lively, tuneful, powerful hour on Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie.
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