Eve Abrams
Eve Abrams first fell in love with stories listening to her grandmother tell them; it’s been an addiction ever since.
Eve is a radio producer, writer, audio documentarian, and educator. Her work airs on WWNO, as well as on national programs such as the Tavis Smiley Show, Studio 360, The World, and This American Life. Her writing is published in the 2010 collection Where We Know: New Orleans as Home, as well as in Fourth Genre, Wesleyan Magazine, and the forthcoming New Orleans atlas, Unfathomable City. She is also the co-author of the book Preservation Hall.
Eve has taught in public and charter schools, both in New Orleans and New York City, and currently teaches writing at the Waldo Burton School and an audio workshop at Tulane University.
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At all levels of government right now, laws about juveniles are rapidly changing. However, some states, including Louisiana, continue to prosecute and... -
Asha Lane is an 18-year-old senior at the International High School of New Orleans, a charter high school. Asha wanted to find out why New Orleans... -
In the last few years, powerful images of police interacting violently with African Americans -- usually men, or teenagers, or even children -- have... -
“If you grew up struggling, then you my audience,” says Jahi Salaam, an 18-year-old rapper and a poet. Jahi is from New Orleans. His first name, Jahi,... -
We are all living with mass incarceration one way or another. It affects everyone, passively or actively. I was recently sitting in the beautiful... -
What do you do when a member of your family is locked up for a crime you are sure he didn’t commit? Sheila Phipps paints. -
Louisiana is the incarceration capital of the world. That means more families have a loved one behind bars than in any other place. -
The way our criminal justice system works, there’s a significant cost to just being accused of a crime. Innocent or not, one way or another, you still... -
Our ongoing series Unprisoned has been bringing you stories of how mass incarceration affects New Orleans. Last time, we learned about New Orleans... -
The Listening Post is teaming up with the Unprisoned project, a new media initiative by award winning independent radio producer Eve Abrams. We want to ...
