music engineering and activism

Audio stories

This is a story of attending middle school dances in the 1960s. For many girls, dances are a stressful thing. I had the added stress of learning fast that I better not ask girls to dance. Lots of 60s music...the Twist, the Limbo...enjoy!

Limbo Rock

#MeToo

This is a portrait of drummer Carolyn Brandy and her journey to become a master drummer of Cuban rhythms in spite of the worldwide taboos against women drummers. It tells the joy of creating a women's drumming community and playing in the streets for political causes.

Carolyn Brandy: Groundbreaking Woman Drummer

Sistah Boom is a women’s samba marching band that has been showing up in the streets at San Francisco Bay Area demonstrations for close to 40 years – bringing power, energy, and spirit.

Sistah Boom: Forty Years in the Streets

In this half-hour documentary we’ll hear the stories of two women refugees, one who fled Shanghai during Mao’s Chinese revolution, and the other, my grandmother, who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution and Ukrainian pogroms. Both had secrets they held onto for years until, in an extraordinary turn of events, one opened up to her daughter, Helen Zia, and the other to her granddaughter, Chana Wilson. What healing can happen in families when the past is finally revealed?