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Andrew Stelzer, Producer

Andrew Stelzer’s radio work has appeared on programs including MarketplaceNPR News, BBC’s The World, Latino USA, Radio France International’s CrossroadsFree Speech Radio News, and on Making Contact since 2008.

His print work has appeared in The St Petersburg TimesIn These TimesE!Magazine, and elsewhere. Andrew was previously the senior reporter and anchor at WMNF radio in Tampa, FL. Before that, he reported from KBOO radio in Portland, OR, and was KBOO’s youth advocate. Andrew has received awards from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. He was awarded a scholarship to the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism in Mexico, and has taught radio production classes around the world from Algeria to Mississippi.

Reach Andrew at astelzer@radioproject.org.

Shows Andrew worked on:

Fallen Heroes 2021: bell hooks, Nawal El Saadawi, Carrie Dann, Margo St. James, and more
The Fallen of 2020
Fallen Heroes of 2018
A Dream Remembered?: Martin Luther King Jr and the Grassroots Civil Rights Movement (ENCORE)
Fallen Heroes of 2017
Fallen Heroes of 2016
The Electoral College’s Dirty History
Rosa Brooks on How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything
Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness
Jane Mayer on the Hidden Billionaires of the Radical Right
Unstoppable: The Fight for 15
Listen to our extended interview with Stanley Nelson on
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
We Are the Bomb: Boots Riley and Dave Zirin Talk Activism and Politics
These photos show what it's like to live in a tent city
Tent Cities: When Society Fails to House
Squatters: Intruders or Innovators?
Fallen Heroes 2015
The Elusive Neighborhood Cop
Walking in Two Worlds
Mutual Support: We do it Together
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Guns: An American Tradition
#BlackLivesMatter: Alicia Garza on the Origins of a Movement
Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness
Changing Communities, Imminent Threats: Katrina's Legacy
Walking in Two Worlds
Returning Home: From War Fighter to Student
The Power of Poetry
BP Five Years Later: Deepwater Horizon and the Cost of Oil
Fighting Goliath (Part 2)
Fighting Goliath (Part 1)
Squatters: Intruders or Innovators?
Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Black and White
From Montgomery to Ferguson
Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 2

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 2

What are the roots of the historic mistrust between people of color, especially African Americans, and the police? And how does 911 really work? Is slow response time just perception, or reality? During the 2nd half of our 2-part special—The[...]

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 1

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 1

When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part special—The Race to An Emergency, produced by KALW radio in[...]

Fallen Heroes of 2014
Divest! Pulling the plug on Fossil Fuels
Making Contact's 20th Anniversary
Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train
Restorative Justice: Reconciling Face to Face
Changing Everything: Naomi Klein on Capitalism and Climate Change
Blowing the Whistle, Paying the Price
The Power of Poetry
Pesticides on the Playground
Restorative Justice: Reconciling Face to Face
G.M.No!! Genetically Modified Democracy
Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers' Fight for Justice

Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers' Fight for Justice

Americans eat out more than any other people. But the workers who put food on our restaurant tables are struggling to feed themselves and their families. On this edition, Saru Jayaraman, co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United and author[...]

Words vs. Bars: How Prison Poets Escape
The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez
Stuck in the Bluff
Encore presentation: Into Eternity

Encore presentation: Into Eternity

The nation of Finland is building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. We hear excerpts of the film, “Into Eternity”, which explores the logistical and philosophical quandries around[...]

School's Out: The Decimation of Public Education
Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Dirty Wars

Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Dirty Wars

Drone attacks on American citizens. Black sites around the globe where prisoners are tortured. And the prison at Guantanamo is still in operation. As we enter the 6th year of Barack Obamas presidency, his foreign policy legacy is[...]

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 2

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 2

What are the roots of the historic mistrust between people of color, especially African Americans, and the police? And how does 911 really work? Is slow response time just perception, or reality? During the 2nd half of our 2-part special—The[...]

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 1

Race to an Emergency-examining 911 responses Pt. 1

When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part special—The Race to An Emergency, produced by KALW radio in[...]

Greatest hits: Partners in the Struggle-allies in political movements

Greatest hits: Partners in the Struggle-allies in political movements

What does it mean to be an ally in a political movement? From white Americans in the civil rights era, to Israelis in Palestine, to Latino-Americans working with the undocumented…a roundtable discussion on the do’s and don’ts of how to[...]

2013: The Year the Prison System Changed?

2013: The Year the Prison System Changed?

Years of campaigning for basic human rights for people caught up in America's criminal justice system may finally be paying off.[...]