Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler are Peabody-award winning public radio producers and media artists based in Brooklyn and Boston. Their stories and long-form documentaries have aired nationally and internationally on public radio shows including: This American Life, Morning Edition, Weekend America, BBC, CBC, Radio Lab, Re:Sound, Marketplace and numerous others. Individually and collectively, their radio stories and media projects have won Peabody, RTNDA Edward R. Murrow, NFCB Golden Reel, PRNDI, Associated Press and Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) awards, and been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), UnionDocs and Conflux, among other venues. They have held guest lectures at TCIAF, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke, the South Asian Journalists Association Convention at Columbia University and Universität Konstanz. In 2003, Kara and Ann created an experimental short documentary for the Third Coast International Audio Festival about undocumented migrants' experiences crossing the Sonoran Desert. The piece has been featured at festivals around the world and also published in "Documentary 101: A Guided Listening Experience for the Classroom." For the past three years, they were series producers for American Public Media's Weekend America. Currently, Ann and Kara produce, and sometimes host, the new NPR show Hearing Voices.

http://www.annkara.org/

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