Who We Are

Our Team:

Created and Produced by Rachel Falcone & Michael Premo

All Stories and Multimedia Recorded and Produced by Rachel Falcone and Michael Premo, unless otherwise noted

Photography by Michael Premo

Assistant Producer and Mastering Engineer DJ Oja Vincent

Community Engagement and Program Consultant Jennifer Carr MacArthur, Borderline Media

Development Assistant Laila Petrone
Research Assistant Kevin Worthington
Research Assistant Anne Bozack
Volunteer Jennifer Terry

Team Bios:

Rachel Falcone, Creator, Co-Producer, is an oral historian and audio producer who has worked on such interview-based projects as EarSay Inc., None On Record and the award-winning national history project StoryCorps. Her work with Michael Premo has been featured in public exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, SUPERFRONT Gallery, Adriala Gallery and Chashama Studios, and reviewed in such publications as the Daily News, The New York Times Blog and City Limits. Rachel teaches oral history and interviewing to high school students at the Museum of the City of New York. She studied Philosophy at University College London and Vassar College.

Michael Premo, Creator, Co-Producer, is a multidisciplinary artist, theater producer, and arts consultant, who has worked with the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, EarSay, Inc, StoryCorps and The Civilians, among many others. He was a founding producer and curator of The Globesity Festival: Hunger Strike Theater. Michael studied the role of arts in social and political organizing at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

DJ Oja, Assistant Producer and Mixing/Mastering Engineer, is an educator, producer and DJ/turntablist whose life work is to create, connect & be part of the global movement to build community. He is an engineer / producer with Earthdriver live arts collective (and record label) and the owner of Sun Sound/Sunchild Productions which has provided sound design for TV (Sesame Street, etc), live theatre performance (Osage Avenue etc) visual art shows, live musical performances (Toni Blackman, etc) festivals and conferences (United States Social Justice Forum 2007 & 2010, etc) and radio programs.

Jennifer Carr, Community Engagement and Program Consultant, is a media professional with over 12 years of experience in programming, licensing, distribution, marketing and outreach for independent, alternative and social issue media projects. She recently produced StoryCorps Griot’s national oral history tour in partnership with NPR and the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian. Current clients include Emmy® award-winning filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris’ Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow, and the national outreach campaign for the documentary film Beyond the Bricks.