Gia'na Garel is a writer, producer, filmmaker, composer and entertainment consultant based in New York City. From 2005 to 2009, she co-hosted an entertainment-oriented Air America Radio program, On the Real, with pioneer rap artist Chuck D.
In addition to screenwriting, she is author of the essay "The Sound of Freedom", co-wrote the essay "Record of Failure" with Chuck D, and had a show transcript: DMC; published in the 2006 New York Times bestselling anthology The Air America Playbook...[1] alongside such personalities as Rachel Maddow, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, David Bender, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
She was mentioned in a roll call of female filmmakers in the books Black American Cinema[2] by Manthia Diawara;[3] and in Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, & Conversations[4] by Toni Cade Bambara – edited by Toni Morrison.[5]
Traveling internationally from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, she compiled audio documentaries and interviews, such as with Holocaust survivor Eva Kor on forgiveness and world peace,[6] for her indie radio segments—"Everywhere with Gia’na Garel", in addition to others on music.[7] [8]
As of 2014, she also began announcing and voicing for Progressive Voices Network.[9] [10] [11]