Sandy Tolan is a co-founder of Homelands Productions. Since
1982, he has produced dozens of documentaries and features for
National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, and other public radio outlets.
Much of his focus has been on land, water, natural
resources, and indigenous affairs in the US, Mexico,
Central and South America, the Caribbean, Central
Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. His programs
have won numerous awards, including three from the
Overseas Press Club, the DuPont-Columbia Silver
Baton, three Robert F. Kennedy awards for reporting
on the disadvantaged, a Harry Chapin World Hunger
Year award, and a United Nations Gold Medal award.
Sandy was a 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He has written for The New York Times Magazine,
Audubon, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times Magazine,
and dozens of other publications.
Sandy is the author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury USA), based on his award-winning documentary for NPR's Fresh Air about a Palestinian man and a Jewish woman whose families lived in the same house before and after the founding of Israel. The book won a Christopher Award for "affirming the highest values of the human spirit" and was Booklist's "Editor's Choice" for best adult non-fiction book of 2006. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first book, Me and Hank
(Free Press), is an exploration of
heroes and race relations in America through the
experience of baseball
slugger Hank Aaron.
In January 2008, Sandy joined the journalism faculty at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. From 2002 to 2007 he directed the International Reporting Project at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. In 2007, his students won the George Polk Award for a series for print and radio on the early signs of climate change around the world. It was the first time students have been honored in the 58-year history of the awards.
For more about Sandy Tolan and his work, and for the latest news about his projects and speaking appearances, please visit his personal website.
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Selected Works
Radio
 The Lemon Tree
Shipbreaking Worker
Labor Inspector
Cabinet Minister
Express Mail Driver
Pop Singer
Mine Clearer
Oil in Ecuador's Amazon
Ecuador's Golden Cities
Quichua Indians and Oil
Ecuador Resources I
Ecuador Resources II
Books
The Lemon Tree
Me and Hank
Articles
First-Person
Narratives in Radio
Quintessential Gloucester
Shoot to Maim
Vanishing Forests,
Endangered People
When
is a Handful of Beans Not Just a Handful of Beans?
Despair Feeds Hatred,
Extremism
Baseball's Chasm Between
Heroes
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