Public-Facing Audio Work
Hendel’s portfolio includes audio projects, editorial collaborations, and institutional partnerships focused on policy, democracy, and social impact.
No Matter What Happens (2024) was a two-part limited podcast series that explored the future of social movements and racial justice during one of the most turbulent political periods in recent memory. Through conversations recorded before and after the 2024 election—including at the Facing Race conference—the series examined shifts in national politics, the challenges facing democracy, and the strategies communities were using to build power and resilience. Together, both chapters illustrated how audio could function as civic infrastructure, helping listeners understand and navigate a period of heightened democratic uncertainty.
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast is Race Forward’s flagship platform for examining the policies, institutional strategies, and movement frameworks driving racial justice in the United States. Through substantive conversations with government officials, sector leaders, policy experts, and organizers, the podcast analyzes how equity initiatives are being designed, implemented, and contested across federal agencies, public systems, and community movements. Each episode offers listeners a clear window into the structural forces shaping this moment—and the approaches required to advance a more equitable, accountable, and multiracial democracy.
Reflections: A Race Forward Podcast (2022) was an eight-episode limited series recorded live at the National Immigrant Integration Conference, offering a focused examination of the policies, structural barriers, and political conditions shaping the immigrant justice landscape. Through in-depth conversations with leaders across the immigrant rights ecosystem, the series analyzed the federal policy environment, the persistence of anti-Blackness within immigration systems, and the implications of stalled reform efforts under the Biden administration. Each episode delivered timely analysis and strategic insight to support organizers, advocates, and institutional partners working to advance immigrant justice during a period of profound uncertainty.
Immigration MIC (2015–2020) was a narrative podcast series that documented a pivotal five-year period in U.S. immigration politics through more than 100 interviews with organizers, advocates, and community leaders. The show captured the emotional, political, and structural dimensions of immigrant justice work during a time of heightened enforcement, public mobilization, and shifting national policy. Today, it serves as a historical record and a narrative archive of how individuals and communities experienced and responded to one of the most consequential periods in modern immigration history. The archive is no longer publicly accessible because of the evolving risks associated with immigration storytelling.
