Abod was a radio broadcaster for 19 years. She hosted and produced news, features, live talk shows, documentaries and specials programming on public and commercial radio in Connecticut, Philadelphia and Boston. She was the first woman in Connecticut to host a nightly AM radio talk show, “The Jennifer Abod Show,” WELI – AM.
Abod co-wrote “The Liberation of Lydia,” with community and Yale women in the early 1970s and was the voice of Lydia. This was the first feminist radio soap opera which aired 13 – five minute episodes on WYBC-FM, the Yale University Radio Station.
In 1988 she created Profile Productions to produce and distribute audio and video projects featuring feminist and lesbian activists, cultural workers, particularly women of color.
Her radio documentary, “Audre Lorde: Radio Profile.” was featured on WGBH, FM, Boston as well as several award winning interactive call-in radio shows.
