Our House e-newsletter November & December 2012 | Page 4

Georgia Mjartan
By now, most of you reading this will know that Ann
Curry produced a special segment about the working
homeless featuring Our House for Rock Center with
Brian Williams. The piece aired on November 29th. The
full story, along with a web extra in which Ann Curry
tours The Shelter and talks with me, is available online.
If you haven’t already done so, I hope you’ll check it out.
Many people have asked what it was like to meet Ann
Curry and how this whole production came about. I
thought I would share a little bit of that story here as
well as some great behind-the-scenes shots that were
taken while Ann and her fabulous crew were in town
back in October shooting this story.
In early October, I got a voice mail from NBC News
Producer Tim Sandler. Ann was interested in doing a
story that would highlight the new face of homelessness—
people who have full time jobs and college degrees but