Wake Up Call
Tana earns her daily bread in the office of External
Relations for the UNC Department of Psychiatry.
Her passions, however, are sailing with partner
Peter Thorn and advocating for economic and
political justice.
She hosts the WILPF Wake Up Call live each Friday
morning at 7:30am and has for the past few years
hosted a similarly formatted issues talk show that
airs three times a week on The Peoples Channel,
cable channel 8.
Tana is secretary of the Board of Directors for The
Peoples Channel (TPC), serving Chapel Hill, Orange
County, and parts of Chatham and Durham
counties. She is treasurer for the media watchdog
group, Balance and Accuracy in Journalism –
Committee for Media in the Public Interest, which
sponsors monthly events designed to provide
broader perspectives on important issues that are
often ignored or underreported by mainstream
media. She has served as president of the
advocacy group, North Carolina Voters for Clean
Elections, and was a member of the State
Employees Association of NC, District 25.
She earned her B.A. summa cum laude from
Wellesley College and an M.A. from Duke
University. Before abandoning grad school for a job
at UNC, she completed the coursework for a Ph.D.
in History, also at Duke.
Wake Up Call, sponsored by the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom –
Triangle Branch, features weekly 30-minute
interviews with some of the most interesting,
engaging, and thought-provoking people in and
around our community. WILPF, an international
NGO with sections in 35 countries, is the oldest
women's peace and justice organization in the
world.
Show Time: Wednesdays 7:30-8 pm
DJ / Host:
Tana Hartman
The weekly Wake Up Call addresses a wide range of
social and economic justice issues, from the
achievement gap in our schools, to the search for an
Orange County waste transfer station, to local teens
reporting on their trip to Nicaragua with Witness for
Peace, to campaign finance reform and healthcare in
North Carolina, to the International Worker Justice
Movement and its links to local workers.
Although these and other issues are of interest and
often imminent concern to members of the local
community, they are usually under- or even
unreported by the mainstream media. Some issues
have a local focus. Others link our community to larger
world issues. All of them impact the lives of Carrboro
and Chapel Hill community members in one way or
another.
For more information, visit http://trianglewilpf.org/
Listen to the podcast.