Jennifer Abod

Jennifer Lynn Abod, Ph.D. Intercultural Media Education and Women’s Studies. Abod is an award winning feminist media director, and producer who was part of the dawning of the second wave of feminism in the U.S.

Abod taught Women's Studies, Popular Culture, and Communication at U. Mass Boston, Worcester State, College and Hofstra University.

Her documentaries includes: “The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen,” (WMM, 2016) Look us in the Eye: The Old Women’s Project, (Aquarium, 2006) and The Edge of Each Others Battles: The Vision Of Audre Lorde, (WMM, 2002.

Abod worked in radio for 19 years. She hosted and produced radio programs on community, public, and commercial radio in New Haven, Philadelphia and Boston. She was the first woman in Connecticut to host a nightly AM radio talk program, "The Jennifer Abod Show.”

She established Profile Productions in 1988 creating award winning radio documentaries and public radio interview and talk show specials. Audio CD’s include, A Radio Profile of Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde Reads: Selections from “Sister Outsider” and “Zami: A New Spelling of my Name.”

In the 1970s, Abod was the singer of the New Haven (CT) Women’s Liberation Rock Band and co-writer of "The Liberation of Lydia" the first feminist radio soap opera.