The Show

Laura Flanders & Friends (formerly The Laura Flanders Show) brings solutions-oriented journalism to millions of viewers and listeners on PBS and community radio. The weekly TV, radio and podcast program highlights systemic change and amplifies the voices of changemakers, connecting audiences with stories that challenge the status quo and inspire transformative action. Throughout her career, Laura has consistently used her platform to spotlight individuals and movements driving progress, demonstrating the power of independent media to shift narratives and spark bold ideas.

The Place

where the people who say it can’t be done

take a back seat to the people who

are doing

The Host

Laura Flanders is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and the host of Laura Flanders & Friends, a public affairs program airing nationwide on PBS, community radio and released as a weekly podcast.

With a career rooted in independent journalism, Laura has dedicated herself to covering stories of resilience, activism, and innovation. Her work brings underreported voices and transformative ideas to the forefront, encouraging viewers to think critically about today’s pressing issues and possibilities for social change. In recognition of her contributions, Laura has received the Izzy Award, a Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation, and the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Media Center.

Raised in London in a family of performers and journalists, Laura was shaped by a global perspective from a young age. Her journalism journey began in Northern Ireland, where she witnessed firsthand the complexities of conflict and media framing. By the 1990s, she was co-hosting CounterSpin, a media critique show by the media watch group FAIR, and contributing to The Nation, Ms. Magazine, and Pacifica Radio. In 2001, she launched Your Call, a daily call-in radio show on KALW, engaging listeners in dialogue on critical social issues. This path led her to television in 2008, where she created GRITtv, a grassroots-focused news show covering the Financial Crisis and beyond.

Cultural Freedom Fellowship

Lannan Foundation

Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award

Women’s Media Center

Urban Journalist
of the Year

Urban Communication Foundation

Izzy Award

Park Center
at Ithaca College

Most Valuable
Multimedia Maker

The Nation

Communicator of
the Year Award

NY Metro Labor Press Council

Stonewall Award

Stonewall Community Foundation

The Idea

Laura Flanders & Friends is produced by Curious Communications, Inc., an independent, non-profit media organization that amplifies the voices of forward-thinking people and spotlights movements driving systemic change.

The Co-Hosts

Amir Khafagy

Journalist, Report for America Member, Documented

Amir Khafagy is an award-winning New York City-based journalist. He is currently a Report for America Corps member with Documented. Much of Amir’s beat explores the intersections of labor, race, class, immigration, and urban policy.

His writing has been featured in The Guardian, Vice, The New Republic, New York Mag, The City, Bloomberg, Prism, Documented, The Appeal, Dame, The American Prospect, Jacobin, and In These Times. Additionally, Amir has worked as a researcher for the critically acclaimed podcast Serial.

I’m an independent journalist based in Durham, NC. I’m the author and creator of The View from Somewhere, a book and podcast about the history of journalistic “objectivity” and how it has been used to uphold the status quo and exclude voices from oppressed communities. T he book is now available from University of Chicago Press and the podcast is available, too! My new book project, Radical Unlearning, is focused on the relationship between information, interconnection, and social change and is forthcoming from Beacon Press.

Lewis Raven Wallace

Author, The View From Somewhere; Abolition Media Fellow, Interrupting Criminalization

The Team

Sabrina Artel

Supervising Producer

Sabrina Artel is an artist and a journalist. Her works explore community-based practices through the lens of social justice and direct storytelling. She has taught at Brooklyn and Hunter Colleges in their journalism and media studies departments and has been a guest speaker at the OTIS School of Art and Design, The School of Visual Arts and the School of Public Health at Columbia University in NYC. Her interdisciplinary 19-year project, Trailer Talk includes a radio show and live performative events using new models for participatory communication, narrative building, and dialogue to support community engagement. Her work has been recognized by the Puffin Foundation, NYSCA and Art Matters among others.

Jeremiah Cothren is a producer & multimedia journalist whose work has been featured on platforms such as PBS and Latino USA and screened at the Miami Independent Film Festival. He was the principal photographer for the short film, Zero and contributor to the book, Lines & Lineage, focused on heritage and the missing visual record of the lands and people when Mexico ruled what we now know as the American West. He is based in New York City.

Jeremiah Cothren

Senior Producer

Veronica Delgado

Editor

Veronica Delgado has worked as an editor, an animator, and director. Veronica’s current focus on editing allows her to bring her skills to support her passion for storytelling. She comes from the world of commercial editing and independent film, starting as a junior editor cutting her teeth on corporate videos, working her way up to editing on award-winning music videos, short films, and commercials.

Janet Hernandez is an early-career journalist and music enthusiast based in New York City. With her writing expertise and passion for storytelling, she’s on a mission to support and uplift change makers and creatives who are doing things differently.

Janet Hernandez

Communications Director

Jeannie Hopper

Audio Director

Jeannie Hopper pioneers media strategies for community focused platform building. She produced several podcast series, radio shows and streaming stations. As former program director at WBAI she developed new shows and training programs. Hopper developed and managed Clocktower Radio, a premiere podcast, live stream and on demand platform for PS1-MoMA. She currently produces the radio/podcast edition of the Laura Flanders Show, and hosts and produces Liquid Sound Lounge-on WBAI-Pacifica in New York City, targeting youth via underground music and culture along with annual ‘social dance’ focused events including annual boat parties.

Sarah Miller joined The Laura Flanders Show as Development Director in 2023. She has twenty years of non-profit experience, including producing a Latin American film festival in New York and managing a foundation dedicated to US-Cuban cultural exchange. In these roles she concentrated on serving New York’s diverse Latino communities as well as promoting Latino films to a wider audience. Having taught English in Bulgaria and Moscow in the early 1990s, she firmly believes in the importance of open communications and information sharing in all its forms.

Additional professional experience includes several years in training and management at J.P. Morgan Chase, including establishing a new Creative Services department in Buenos Aires. She holds art history degrees from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. Most recently, she served as development director and then executive director for an association of humanist youth camps

Sarah Miller

Development Director

David Neumann

Senior Video Editor

Before joining The Laura Flanders Show, David was a freelance editor. He has edited for Globalvision since 2009. His projects include two six-part documentary series for international distribution, America’s Surveillance State and Who Rules America; PBS NewsHour reports on the digital divide; a series of programs on the 2018 midterm elections for satcaster Free Speech TV; and, most recently, programs for The Laura Flanders Show.

In addition to his work with Globalvision, previous production and post-production experience includes narrative and documentary films (short and feature length), news segments, commercials, corporate videos and internal communications spanning a variety of settings, ranging from commercial production companies, advertising agencies and corporate production companies.