Bio
Vanessa Handy is the associate producer of At Liberty, the ACLU's podcast.
An award-winning podcast producer and journalist based in Brooklyn, NY, Vanessa crafts stories that focus on race, culture, the arts and identity. Previously, she helped produce WNYC's Notes from America with Kai Wright, NPR's Life Kit where her work won a 2023 Gracie Award and GBH's Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. She has reported for New York Amsterdam News and NPR Music, written newsletters for National Public Radio's Training Team and taught media literacy for Poynter's MediaWise initiative.
Vanessa is a graduate of New York University's Steinhardt School.
Featured work
![Jason Reynolds, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, 2020-2022. Stands in front of a bookshelf.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/05/jason-reynolds-library-s-400x266.jpg)
May 23, 2024
Jason Reynolds Is Creating a Literary Archive for the Next Generation
![Hasson Bacote posing in a football jersey.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/07/Bacote-life-photos-TrFi-11535-11552-13-400x266.jpg)
Feb 22, 2024
This Case Could Upend the Death Penalty In North Carolina
![Khadidah Stone stands on the dividing line between her old Alabama congressional District 7, to her right with River City Church, and her new district, District 2, to her left, in downtown Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 20, 2022. The Supreme Court’s decision last June siding with Black voters on a redistricting case in Alabama gave Democrats and voting rights activists a surprise opportunity ahead of the 2024 elections to have congressional maps redrawn in a handful of states. Fast forward three months and maps in Alabama and other states that could produce more districts represented by Black lawmakers still don’t exist.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/02/khadidah-stone-s-400x266.jpg)
Feb 15, 2024
3 States, 3 Plaintiffs, and the Fight for Fair District Maps
![With the U.S Capitol in the back ground thousands of demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/12/abortion-2023-protest-blog-400x266.jpg)
Dec 14, 2023
2023 in Review: The Latest on the Stories That Made Our Year