120. Saba Waheed & Veena Hampapur hosts of Re:Work Radio - LRPN Spotlight

<p><a href='http://reworkradio.org/'>Re:Work Radio</a> is a women-led radio show and podcast that spotlights the voices of workers, immigrants, and people of color. Brought to you by the <a href='https://www.labor.ucla.edu/'>UCLA Labor Center</a>. Re:Work also trains community producers and students in multimedia story production. The project includes <a href='http://ccaucla-reworkradio.electricembers.net/#get-involved-2'>curriculum and educational tools</a> that use stories to learn about work.</p> <p>SABA WAHEED - Co-Founder & Producer</p> <p>Saba is the research director at the UCLA Labor Center and has a decade of experience conducting research in low wage sectors such as taxi, restaurant, nail salon, domestic work, etc. that have led to campaign and policy victories. Since 2009, she has co-produced, engineered and hosted the weekly radio show “Flip the Script” on KPFK. She strongly believes that research and media are powerful tools for community storytelling. For the past decade, she co-edited the national online magazine <a href='https://twitter.com/samarmagazine?lang=en'>SAMAR</a>. As a performer, she has worked with Teada Theater and East West Players and her writing has appeared in Hyphen Magazine. She received an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University.</p> <p>VEENA HAMPAPUR - Producer</p> <p>Veena is the ReWork communications specialist at the UCLA Labor Center. Dedicated to storytelling for social change, she discovered her passion for communications while working at various nonprofits including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in California and Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) in New York, where she focused on issues related to homelessness, immigration, policing, and youth.  Veena earned her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from UCLA in 2016. Her research focused on working class South Asian immigrants and their children, and examined how race, immigration, education, and surveillance shape one another in post-9/11 America. Veena is a filmmaker and 2012 Visual Communications Ar