About

GREEN TIDE RISING (GTR) is an eight-episode audio and video series that spotlights Latin America’s Green Wave movement and how it’s shaping some of the most progressive abortion policies in the world.

Through the eyes of feminist lawyer and reproductive rights advocate Ximena Casas Isaza, we meet the people who have turned the fight for reproductive justice in Latin America and the Caribbean into a powerful, modern feminist movement – from the tip of Argentina all the way to Mexico and beyond.

Hosted by Monica Morales Garcia and Asha Dahya, Green Tide Rising positions the Global South as a beacon of hope and a reminder of what’s at stake for the Global North if we don’t act now.

Co-Hosts

Monica Morales-Garcia

Monica (she/they) is an Audio Journalist, Fact-Checker, and Fashion Scholar from Santa Ana, California. She began her audio career as a Fellow at Latino USA, producing stories on underrepresented Latina romance writers, and the working-class history of the Little Black Dress. She then went on to work at WNYC’s national daily news show, The Takeaway. Covering everything from El Salvador’s politics, to the U.S.’s maternal mortality rate, even the global history of the color pink. You can also catch their work on the public radio show Our Body Politic, and Futuro Media’s political podcast, In The Thick. Monica has a Master of Arts degree in American Studies from California State University, Fullerton, and received her Bachelors from Long Beach State.

Asha Dahya

Asha (she/her) is an Emmy-nominated Producer, writer, TEDx speaker and storyteller. She has spent the last 18 years creating, producing and hosting content for networks and organizations such as MTV, MSN.com, Disney, ABC, CW Network, PBS, Nickelodeon, FOX, the ACLU, Snapchat, and more. Asha is the founder of a daily feminist blog site called GirlTalkHQ.com, and the author of ‘Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing The World’, featuring inspirational stories of 50 women and girls. She received an Emmy Nomination for her work on ‘My Name is Siri,’ a short documentary about Autism awareness which premiered on PBS in 2023. Asha is passionate about reproductive freedom and gender equality, reflected in her recent projects. She directed and produced a short documentary about later abortion called SOMEONE YOU KNOW which is currently on the film festival circuit and is the Board Chair of the national non-profit Religious Community for Reproductive Choice (RCRC.org).

CREDITS

Green Tide Rising is Executive Produced by Jess Jacobs, Lela Meadow-Conner and Asha Dahya. Monica Morales-Garcia is our Series Producer and co-host, and Addi Bjäringer is our Associate Producer. This series was produced in partnership with Pod People.
Our theme music was composed by Andrés Azpiri and our artwork was created by Daniela Jordan-Villaveces. Entonces is edited by Carla Roda. Website design by Livefree Lab.

Listen, subscribe and get the bilingual episodes wherever you get your podcasts, or on YouTube.

This project was produced with the support of the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) as part of its Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice in the Americas initiative.