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Conflict resolution, diversity, and inclusion are critical elements to achieving a just and peaceful society. Where to start? Our guest Lara Mendel, Founder of The Mosaic Project, says it all starts with the children. The Mosaic Project "teaches people - from elementary school students to adults in the workplace - the skills they need to build the communities they envision."
LARA MENDEL
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We speak with Felicia Marcus, the Chair of the California Water Resources Control Board. She tells us how she manages multiple interests for one of the earth's most precious (and dwindling) resources.
FELICIA MARCUS
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Meet Alison Levine, the only American to follow the route of Reinhold Messner to the South Pole, and one of the few to complete the Adventure Grand Slam--climbing the 7 highest peaks in the world, and skiing to both the North and South Poles. Alison has written a book about leadership with lessons from these extreme environments, called "On the Edge." She tells us what it takes to make it in extreme conditions--and everyday ones.
ALISON LEVINE
San Francisco Bay Area solo performer Echo Brown tells us why she titled her one-woman show, "Black Virgins are Not for Hipsters." Her solo performance has sold out for nearly a year at The Marsh in San Francisco, and is still going strong. Want to see her live? The show runs through March 5th in San Francisco and will move over to the Berkeley Marsh on March 12, 2016.
ECHO BROWN, PERFORMER
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Take the Lead Women founder, Gloria Feldt addresses the question--"can women really have it all?". She says that phrase has "done more damage than any phrase in the English language to women's self-esteem." We'll find out why, along with her advice for how women can walk through the many doors that are now open to them--and attain leadership parity by 2025.
Read an edited and condensed version of the article at Fortune.com MPW.
GLORIA FELDT, FOUNDER, TAKE THE LEAD WOMEN
Meet actress and comedian Katie Goodman, whose YouTube video "Sorry Babe, You're a Feminist" went viral when it touched a nerve with both men and women. Her videos are hilarious commentaries on culture and politics. She is a writer, performer, teacher of improv, and children's book author.
KATIE GOODMAN
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Only 6 % of partners in venture capital firms are women, and 77% of those firms have never had a female investor. Sonja Perkins is a Venture Capitalist who founded Broadway Angels, an *all-women* investing group, and was just named one of Worth Magazine's 2015 100 most powerful people in global finance--one of fifteen women to make that list this year. She is also the founder of Project Glimmer which provides gifts to underserved women and girls.
Most recently she founded her own boutique fund, The Perkins Fund, which focuses on early-stage tech ventures.
Listen to the interview above, or read the edited and condensed interview in Fortune MPW.
SONJA PERKINS
Writer, activist, and social entrepreneur Gloria Steinem has been the face of the women's movement since many of us were born, and she is still advocating on our behalf. She founded Ms. Magazine and the Ms. Foundation and has won many awards for her journalism. In 2013 Ms. Steinem received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. She has also written a number of books...Including her latest, "My Life on the Road."
Ms. Steinem and I spoke about her new book, the influence of her dad on her life, and the best retort she ever learned. Plus she shares her advice on how to start a movement, and hypothesizes on why it's been so hard for some to picture a woman in the White House.
GLORIA STEINEM
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Lina Nilsson is a bio-chemical engineer, and was the Innovation Director for the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. She wrote an Op-Ed in the NYTimes called "How to Attract Female Engineers" and in our conversation, she shares some of the letters she received in opposition to this idea. She is now Head of Market Development at Enlitic--where the goal is to help doctors make medical diagnoses better--and faster.
Listen to the full interview above, or read the edited and condensed interview in Fortune Most Powerful Women.
DR. LINA NILSSON, ENGINEER
The poverty level for American families has hovered at 25% for decades, in spite of billions of dollars spent. This week, we speak with Mia Birdsong of Family Story, who offers a new perspective--redefine the definition of a 'traditional family.' And my guest Pam Scott is a philanthropist who brings her corporate experience to sub-Saharan Africa: using human-centered design to reduce unwanted teen pregnancy from 50% to a 'new normal.' Learn more about this topic at PSI.org.