Deborah Begel has been producing news reports, documentaries, literary programs, and public service announcements for many years.
    Her work has appeared on National Public Radio, Studio 360, Justice Talking, Living on Earth, Latino USA, and other programs in the United States. Abroad, her documentaries have been broadcast in Australia, France, Germany, and Finland.
    She began as a reporter and news anchor at WBAI in New York City and went on to fill in for producers at Fresh Air with Terry Gross. She later worked in commercial audio, for Random House Audio and Simon & Schuster Audio. She also produced a season of Selected Shorts (WNYC).
    Later, she moved to Northern New Mexico, where she produced profiles of poets Derek Walcott and Czeslaw Milosz for The Poet's Voice (WNYC). She co-produced two documentaries on life in the old times in Northern New Mexico, Cuentos y Goni: Stories of Childhood in Northern New Mexico, as well as a short documentary, Ten Tickets to Sell: Emerging Democracy in Rio Arriba County, among others.
    From 1999 to 2001, she worked with teachers at the National Writing Project to develop a new literary series, Rural Voices Radio. The 14 half-hour programs feature students reading their stories, poems, and essays about place http://www.nwp.org/r/rvr
    Deborah’s work with the University of New Mexico's Community Environmental Health Program (CEHP) began in 2004 with production of Smoke, Trash, and Trout (link to come when available). Since then she helped produce emergency response information in audio PSAs for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and in response to flooding in New Mexico. More recently, she developed PSAs with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, http://hsc.unm.edu/pharmacy/healthyvoices/cheyenne.html
and audio and video PSAs with Albuquerque's South Valley Academy and South Valley Partners for Environmental Justice,
http://www.svpartners.org/English/PSAs.htm  and http://www.svpartners.org/English/Videos.htm    
    The producer was a founder of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR). She has won awards for her productions from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and others. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism at the University of Oregon and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing at Spalding University.