Anna Sussman Bio

Anna Sussman is a radio and print reporter. She has spent the last year reporting for local and national public radio programs, including The World, The California Report, Pacific Time, Latino USA and All Things Considered.

She earned two masters’ degrees from the Graduate School of Journalism and the School of International and Area Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has lived and worked in East Africa, India and Thailand.

In 2004, she reported on an IV drug epidemic from the isolated northeast Indian state of Mizoram. In 2005, she reported for public radio on the soldiers and civilians of Burma’s ongoing civil war. She was a contributing author to the book, Surviving Justice: America’s Wrongly Convicted. She also worked as a research assistant at the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley for a study on the AIDS epidemic in Burma. In the fall of 2006, she worked as a producer for a live news call-in program on San Francisco public radio. Her print work has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the San Francisco Chronicle, and various news wires including the Associated Press.

From incarcerated women to high-ranking bureaucrats, from Grass Valley, California, to the Rift Valley, Kenya, Anna aims puts a human face on the issues of our time, combining lively audio and engaging prose with thoughtful, informed analysis.

anna @ April 13, 2007