Season Two of 70 Million won a Silver Award at the 2020 New York Festivals® Radio Awards in the category of Narrative/Documentary Podcasts.

Casey Miner (she/her)

MANAGING EDITOR

Independent Producer and Editor

Led creative teams, Al Jazeera & KALW

Taught audio production at UC-Berkeley

Juleyka Lantigua (she/her)

CREATOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

CEO, LWC

Producer/Editor, NPR

Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Sarah McClure (she/her)

FACT CHECKER

Investigative producer, filmmaker and fact-checker

Grantee at Type Investigations & ICFJ

Eve Abrams

Eve Abrams (she/her) is a radio producer, writer, audio documentarian, and educator whose work centers on amplifying the voices from her adopted hometown, New Orleans. She produces the audio project Unprisoned, which tells stories at the intersection of the criminal legal system and human lives. Unprisoned was a Peabody Finalist, has received several awards including a Gabriel, and is the foundation for Eve's TED talk, The Human Stories Behind Mass Incarceration. Eve's radio stories air on a host of national programs such as Morning Edition, Reveal, and This American Life, and she edits the award-winning podcast, TriPod. Abrams is a 2017 Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellow. She has been a classroom teacher for 25 years. For 70 Million, she investigates a group in New Orleans that is fighting bail with cash—and it’s working.

Cheryl Green

Cheryl (she/her) is an independent filmmaker and audio producer and media accessibility specialist. She produces for Disability Visibility Podcast. Her own work focuses on demedicalizing disability and amplifying disability culture. She was an AIR New Voices Scholar in 2017 and is a Member-Owner at New Day Films. For 70 Million, she goes to Oregon, where case managers are work to translate the needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities for a system that’s not set up for them.

Pamela Kirkland

Pamela (she/her) is an award-winning journalist based in Atlanta. She's covered breaking news events around the country ranging from hurricanes to elections. And worked for The PBS NewsHour reporting on long-form stories looking at the opioid crisis, immigration, education and more. She joined the NewsHour in 2015 from the Washington Post where she was part of the video team that produced the Emmy-nominated “N-word Project." She's traveled the country--covering 3 presidential campaigns, Congress, and the White House. She graduated with a degree in Political Science and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. For 70 Million, she exposes the ways in which bail is shackling women of color in Atlanta.

Laine Kaplan-Levenson

Laine Kaplan-Levenson (they/them) is a multimedia producer in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are the host and producer of New Orleans Public Radio WWNO’s award-winning history podcast TriPod: New Orleans at 300, as well as the WWNO/WRKF (Baton Rouge) political podcast Sticky Wicket. Laine is also a freelance journalist for national radio and print outlets. They’ve filed for NPR, Marketplace, Latino USA, Oxford American, Here and Now, Backstory, Gravy, and others. They’ve also worked with podcasts including This American Life, Death Sex and Money, Nancy, and 10 Things That Scared me. Laine is the founder and lead producer of the live storytelling series, Bring Your Own, and a producer with Last Call, a multiracial collective of queer artists, activists, and archivists in New Orleans. For 70 Million, they travel to Colorado, where two neighboring counties are taking pretty different approaches to criminal justice.

Rowan Moore Gerety

Rowan (he/him) is a reporter and radio producer in New York City, and the author of Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique. He had produced audio documentaries for Latino USA and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and written for Harpers, the Atlantic, and the Nation, among others. For 70 Million, he reports from Texas for the story of one woman behind bars whose pregnancy launched a reform movement.

Carolina Hidalgo

Carolina Hidalgo (she/her) is a photojournalist and multimedia story producer at St. Louis Public Radio, where she has reported on pretrial monitoring practices, bail reform efforts and immigration issues. In 2019, she reported from the United States-Mexico border as an International Women’s Media Foundation fellow. She also serves as a mentor with NPR’s Next Generation Radio project. For 70 Million, she reports on a grassroots effort to build public and political support for the closure of a notorious St. Louis jail.

Jenny Casas

Jenny Casas (she/her) (@jnnsmn) is a Chicago-based audio reporter and producer working in Spanish and English. She's investigated environmental crimes and local government corruption for USA Today’s podcast The City. Before that, she covered the intersection of restorative justice and criminal law in Cook County for City Bureau, and reported on immigration, class and power for St. Louis Public Radio. For 70 Million, she looks at an automated text message service that reminds defendants of their court dates in Palm Beach County and new electronic ankle monitors in Cook County. In both cases, her reporting asks, who benefits from these technological advances?

Sabine Jansen

Sabine Jansen (she/her) is an independent podcast producer and editor. She’s a Dutch raised, Brooklyn based, world traveling, curious mind, with a constant itch for good stories. Her work focuses on criminal justice reform and wrongful convictions. For 70 Million, she chronicles the start of the Brooklyn Conviction Review Unit, a special unit in the DA’s office. The CRU turned out to be crucial in the exoneration of Mark Denny, who was wrongfully incarcerated for almost three decades.