We make audio documentaries about redemption, transformation and people making change.

Across our three seasons, the award-winning stories of Gray Area Productions are strengthened by our belief that “subjects” can and should take a lead in sharing their own stories. Our role is to provide the professional expertise and access to journalistic platforms that ensure audiences are primed to listen, learn from and act upon what these lifelong makers of change have to say.

Gray Area is a project of Voices of Monterey Bay, a bilingual, bicultural nonprofit news site.

Be sure to listen and follow (always for free) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Stitcher and pretty much everywhere fine podcasts are found. And if you like Gray Area, please rate or review us on Apple Podcasts. It helps us reach more people.

A key distinction of our work: Though we are professional journalists and producers, we work in close and transparent partnership with the people sharing their stories, welcoming them as production partners and cultural advisors.

These creative partnerships help ensure that the tone, content and messages of our work reflect their voices and stories in ways that communicate and respect their truth, experiences and needs. This process may include decisions about how we frame, incorporate or omit potentially triggering subjects or content. And these decisions guide our research, documentation and gathering of source materials.

It’s our hope that this kind of respectful, trauma-aware collaboration will inform how creators across the media ecosphere can begin to work more honestly and respectfully with people who have long been marginalized by reporters, editors and other gatekeepers.

Gray Area is a project of Voices of Monterey Bay, a bilingual, bicultural nonprofit news site.