Kudos to Ear Hustle for their commitment and award-winning Podcast.
Ear Hustle brings you the daily realities of life inside prison, shared by those living it, as well as stories from the outside, post-incarceration. Ear Hustle, launched in 2017, is the first Podcast created and produced in prison, featuring stories from California’s San Quentin State Prison. Co-founded by Bay Area artist Nigel Poor, alongside Earlonne Woods and Antwan Williams, the Podcast now tells stories both from inside prison and from the outside, post-incarceration.
In 2020, Ear Hustle was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting, the first time the category was recognized, for its “consistently surprising and beautifully crafted series on life behind bars.” In 2021, it received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for “shattering myths about serving time and what happens afterward.” Ear Hustle has also been honored by the Third Coast International Audio Festival the Moran Center for Youth Advocacy and is a two-time Peabody Award nominee.
Earlonne and Nigel have delivered commencement addresses at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Bennington College, keynoted at Podcast Movement, and discussed their work at City Arts & Lectures, the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, and the Tribeca Festival in New York. The Podcast has inspired multiple creative endeavors, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Songs from the Spirit” dance performance.
They are also authors of This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life, published by Crown/Random House, which was the San Francisco Public Library’s One City One Book selection in 2022. Ear Hustle is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary podcasts. Winning Radiotopia’s first podcast search in 2016, Ear Hustle has been downloaded over 75 million times and is broadcast to incarcerated communities in the U.S. and the U.K.
The Ear Hustle team works in San Quentin’s media lab and the KQED office in San Francisco. You can find them on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Team:
Nigel Poor: Co-producer, Co-host, Co-creator
Earlonne Woods: Co-producer, Co-host, Co-creator
Amy Standen: Editor
Bruce Wallace: Executive Producer
Derrell Sadiq Davis: Assistant Producer and Music Contributor
Rahsaan “New York” Thomas: Producer
Shabnam Sigman: Managing Producer
Tam Nguyen: Assistant Producer
Tony de Trinidad: Assistant Producer
Tony Tafoya: Inside Managing Producer
A Special thanks to Antwan “Banks” Williams, Curtis Fox, David Jassy, Erin Wade, John “Yahya” Johnson, Julie Shapiro, Pat Mesiti-Miller, Rhashiyd Zinnamon, and Lt. Sam Robinson for all your help and support.
Big thanks to Acting Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and Acting Warden Parker and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women for their support of the show.
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