Noelle Hanrahan is an award-winning investigative journalist and director of "Prison Radio". This unique project challenges mass incarceration and this form of racism by airing the voices of men and women in prison. In 1992, Hanrahan began recording the commentaries of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. She initiated and produced Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal, (Addison Wesley 1995) and in 2000 she edited Mumia's book of essays All Things Censored (Seven Stories).
Hanrahan has won three Golden Reel Awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for her work. Currently she produces "Dispatches From Death Row," Mumia Abu-Jamal's weekly radio commentaries heard on over100 radio stations.
With the Redwood Justice Fund, Hanrahan also helped environmental activist Judi Bari's estate win a historic 4.4 million dollar jury verdict against the FBI and the Oakland Police Department. Hanrahan is a graduate of Stanford University, and received her degree in Gender, Race and Class Studies. She lives the San Francisco Bay View Hunter's Point district with her seven-year-old daughter Miranda.
Noelle Hanrahan is an award-winning investigative journalist and director of "Prison Radio". This unique project challenges mass incarceration and this form of racism by airing the voices of men and women in prison. In 1992, Hanrahan began recording the commentaries of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal. She initiated and produced Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal, (Addison Wesley 1995) and in 2000 she edited Mumia's book of essays All Things Censored (Seven Stories). 
