Amanda Shauger's Page

Amanda Shauger is currently helping out with the Tucson Nonviolence Legacy Project.

I took a DJ training course at our local Community Radio Station 91.3 KXCI Tucson and began to volunteer over 10 years ago. Nearly 5 years ago, I learned how to record and edit news and features, and I was offered a half hour public affairs program.I've gotten a chance to ask a question of the Dalai Lama and I've been able to confront Sheriff Joe Arpaio about his policies. I've featured many prison related interviews. Some of my stories on immigration have gone national and international. They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, but the microphone is pretty powerful, too. 30 Minutes airs on Sundays at 3pm mountain standard time and recent programs are archived here. I also host a weekly music program on Tuesdays from 10am-noon mountain standard time. You can listen on line here.

Bo Lozoff's We're All Doing Time, available to the incarcerated for free from the Human Kindness Foundation has been a great inspiration to me for putting into practice my beliefs. I read it regularly today...unless I have just given away my last copy and I am waiting for a new one.

After meeting Bo Lozoff in 2006, I decided that it was time to start helping out people in the community with the issues of incarceration. I joined the Women's Re-Entry Network. These women have all done time and have developed a course that is taught at the Pima County Jail on topics such as civil rights, health, parenting, sexual abuse, addiction and prison survival. I also recently began helping a local group called Read Between the Bars which collects books in the Tucson community and sends them to inmates throughout Arizona.

I also signed up to be a mentor for the Prisoner Re-Entry Project (PREP) which is comprised of a number of local organizations who provide services such as housing, counseling, and training for recently released inmates with non violent, non sex offenses. I've been really touched by their events because they include folks who just got out of prison, graduates of the program, cops, service providers, faith based folks, probation officers, and educators all talking about ways to help people in prison and people getting out of prison. I was really impressed by the recently released folks who are already mentors.


My heroes are people in my community who are working on the issues of human rights, prison, immigration, social justice, etc. Because I have a background in community radio, I get to meet people on a regular basis who are working to help make things better for the people around them. Even when the political and social will seems to be opposed to these good works, it constantly fills my heart with love to join in the work and I hope you will consider helping out in your area, too. It is especially gratifying to find so many people who have joined The Gathering For Justice.