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Shaina ShealySS

Shaina Shealy

Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Shaina Shealy is a producer and journalist whose work focuses on religion, identity and women's health and safety. She currently produces radio stories at WNYC's Snap Judgment in Oakland, California.
From hate to peace worker, a Palestinian story
Portrait of a Myanmar poet wearing a blue shirt.
Arts, Culture & Media
A spoken word poet in Myanmar speaks out against hate and injustice
Illustration of young woman sitting in car, arms folded in despondent pose, while older man is driving, with prayer beads hanging from rearview mirror and Buddha figurine on dash
Culture
How to deal when politics divide your family
Thet Thet Wai
This woman bodybuilder in Myanmar is using Facebook to advocate for harsher penalties for rape
Teklit Michael dreamed of running in the London Olympics. But his country, Eritrea, jailed him. So he fled to Israel.
Conflict
A life of statelessness derailed this Eritrean runner’s hopes to compete in the Olympics
After her third daughter was born, Faten decided to make sure that her fourth child would be a boy. She says she has a career and a family to take care of. She can't keep getting pregnant over and over again.
Medicine
An Israeli woman traveled to the West Bank so she could be sure she’d have a boy
Muna Assaf has been asking her reporters to talk with people on the street about catcalling. She men do it because they think they have the authority to do it.
Lifestyle
A Palestinian radio station in the West Bank tackles catcalling, divorce and sex
Kids at camp Anytown Alabama do an exercise on what it might mean to be undocumented, including the difficulty getting health coverage.
Education
Learning what it’s like to be undocumented at an Alabama summer camp
In Buddhist Myanmar, there's a view that abortion is wrong because "human life happens only in a blue moon, so we shouldn't waste a life like this."
Health
Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one doctor
Hadassah Mount Scopus used to be a model of co-existence for Jews and Palestinians. But increasingly Jewish and Palestinian women say they're afraid to give birth there.
Conflict
Mothers fear having babies at hospital once hailed for promoting Israeli, Palestinian coexistence
Linguists Arik Sadan (in his Israeli Army days) and Sobhi Bahloul. Sadan is an authority on the Arabic language. Bahloul authored the Hebrew curriculum for Gaza's Palestinians.
Culture
A tale of two linguists and the conflict that separates them