• On the front lines now: a podcast

    This week on the GeekWire Podcast, our guest is Hanson Hosein — an Emmy Award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and communication strategist who has spent his career making sense of the world in times of change. His world view is summed up in his advice to students and recent grads: “You’ve got to start your own company. You’ve got…

  • American Dignity: a documentary

    American Dignity (2025) TRT 20:00 Documentary — Hanson Hosein director In the shadow of a divisive election, a young organizer seeks wisdom from a civil rights elder—and takes to the streets to rekindle a movement rooted in courage, memory, and the unshakable pursuit of dignity. In the aftermath of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, voting…

  • StoryCorps: a conversation

    My conversation for the moment is now preserved for as long as time permits within the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. This StoryCorps interview with Charles Douglas III, recorded recently in Selma, Alabama — just before we headed to Washington D.C. for the presidential inauguration as part of a new documentary project…

  • On the Heights: a music video

    I’ve been pondering the viability of creative work in the face of artificial intelligence’s rapid growth. I’ve made a living from original thinking, often represented in audio and visual media. When so much can be so easily replicated and mimicked by the likes Sora and Stable Diffusion, what is the essence of human creativity that…