Tonya Mosley to Launch ‘She Has a Name’ Family Mystery Podcast With APM Studios
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Fresh Air radio co-host Tonya Mosley is set to launch the She Has a Name podcast next month, about a young Detroit mother lost amid that city’s economic collapse and crack cocaine epidemic.
The 10-part documentary podcast from APM Studios will kick off March 28. Mosley, who grew up in Detroit in the 1980s and ’90s and is now co-host of Fresh Air With Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, is joined by her nephew, Antonio Wiley, to tell a story of family disconnection and healing.
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The origins of the podcast, which blends investigative journalism and memoir, came in 1987 when Detroit firefighters discovered the remains of an unidentified young woman in a vacant house deliberately set on fire.
Buried in a cemetery as “Unknown Woman 1987,” it took a DNA program 30 years later to identify the young woman’s remains as those of Anita — the mother of Antonio Wiley and the sister Mosley never knew she had during her Motor City childhood.
Together Mosley and her nephew piece together the story behind Anita’s disappearance in an embattled city that failed her, and what happened to a family and a city left behind. She Has a Name, also from Mosley’s TMI Productions banner, will run in Truth Be Told, the Webby Award-winning podcasts strand.
APM Studios — the podcasting arm of American Public Media — handles ad sales, marketing and distribution for Truth Be Told, while also boarding the She Has a Name limited series as a co-producer.
On Air Fest Brooklyn will present an exclusive first-listen event for the She Has a Name podcast Feb. 29.
“As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson has said, ‘You can’t escape from trauma by ignoring it. You only escape trauma by confronting it.’ I am tremendously proud of my family’s bravery as we share this important story. The power of storytelling allows us to not only share our truth, but provide a pathway of collective understanding and healing for those who have also endured great losses,” Mosley, a former co-host and correspondent for Here & Now on National Public Radio, said in a statement.
The limited series is created, hosted, written and produced by Mosley and Wiley, also a native Detroiter who works in the automotive industry.
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