Author and founder of The ART and Science of Family, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt spent years writing about reproductive technology, but always assumed she’d have a child the old-fashioned way. Then her path led her to taking her reproductive destiny into her own hands. Hear our conversation about her adventures in procreation that led her to writing her book, In Her Own Sweet Time: Egg Freezing and the New Frontiers of Family--and what reproductive tech means for the feminist movement
How To Welcome A Refugee- Christina Psarra of Doctors Without Borders
Refugees literally sacrifice everything to keep their families safe and to start a new life. Christina Psarra of Doctors Without Borders gives up everything to help them. The only thing she knows for months at a time is the arrival of refugee after refugee after refugee.
So what’s left over for her? The other side of the refugee story is the stress for the aid workers and their 24/7 schedule. And with Christina putting so much of herself into her work, what does it take not to burn out and what keeps her coming back? Listen to our conversation.
Learn more life as a refugee at ForcedFromHome.com
How To Find Joy In The Resistance - Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker, Women's March Organizers
As national organizers for The Women’s March and leaders of The Resistance Revival Chorus, artist activists Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker see their purpose as connecting fellow members of The Resistance to the moments of joy and transcendence that come with being a part of history in the making. They walk in the footsteps of the Nina Simone’s and Joan Baez’s and Aretha Franklin’s of the world--the artists who helped to fuel the Civil Rights movement by nourishing the souls of the people who marched for freedom.
And if there was ever a time when we need to consistently keep our souls replenished for the fight against injustice, it would be now.
Hear how Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker use the power of art and culture in activism, what they learned in documenting The Women’s March for the newly released book, Together We Rise, and how you can participate in the 2018 Women's March.
And tell us how you found your voice in 2017 and what you are going to do with it in 2018, on our Facebook page!
Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker, photo by Guy Murrow
Why A College Degree Won't Close The Gender Gap - Nancy Niemi, Yale
As more and more women graduate from college and even surpass their male peers in levels of education, men are finding other means for achieving career success. Nancy Niemi, Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at Yale questions the conventional wisdom that college is a path to gender equality. Women now need more degrees than ever just to compete because in spite of all this education, institutional sexism is still prevalent. Her new book is Degrees of Difference.
How to turn your dreams into a reality- Bonny Simi, JetBlue Ventures
Do you need to be superhuman to accomplish everything you wanted to do in life when you were a teenager? According to Bonny Simi, Olympian, sports reporter, airline pilot and JetBlue Technology Ventures' President, you don’t need to have superpowers--you just have to make friends with failure. Hear how one woman has turned a list she made when she was 14 into a lifetime of barrier-breaking achievements.
Bonny Simi
How To Re-Design How Girls Learn STEM - Suz Somersall, KiraKira
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From her childhood as a self-confessed gaming nerd to her career as an engineering-inspired artist (or is it art-inspired engineer?), Suz Somersall has made a life of her own design. She's now the founder of KiraKira, a learning program that makes girls feel confident and excited about creating new products using 3D printing, design-thinking and STEAM concepts.
We’ll hear how Suz redefined her role from military wife to entrepreneur---with her husband fighting halfway across the world.
This week on "Inflection Point," Suz shares how, despite a career full of pivots, one's life can ultimately lead in the same direction all along.
Suz Somersall (in pink) and the KiraKira team
She Brought A Sex Toy To A Gun Fight - Jessica Jin
Jessica Jin led the protests against the campus carry gun law at University of Texas at Austin last fall by, as she says, "fighting absurdity with absurdity." Find out more about her campaign, #cocksnotglocks.
Jessica Jin
Hard-Won Advice From Corporate Trailblazers - Joann Lublin, Wall Street Journal
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Joann Lublin is the management news editor at the WSJ and the author of the new book "Earning It. Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World." Her finding? Gender bias is alive and kicking. We talk about the new forms it's taking.
Joann Lublin
How To Reinvent Journalism-Cristi Hegranes, Founder Global Press Institute
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Cristi Hegranes was a foreign correspondent who decided to stop being the voice for the people she was reporting on and instead train women in their own countries to be journalists for themselves when she founded Global Press Institute. What happens to the story when you change the storyteller? Find out in our conversation.
Photo credit: Brad Argo
(Left to right): Mariam Aboubakar Esperance, Esther Nsapu, Cristi Hegranes, Noella Nyirabihogo and Merveille Kavira Luneghe.
How To Be A Female Founder - Live From Women In Product, Silicon Valley
This fall, I was invited to moderate a panel for a conference put on by Women In Product, a non-profit formed to create a strong community of women builders and leaders in the tech industry. My panel included four female founders of technology companies: Cheryl Contee of Fission Strategy, Heather Fernandez of Solv, Selina Tobaccowala of Gixo and Aarthi Ramamurthy of Lumoid.
You’ll hear what surprised each of them about starting a company, the pros and cons of running a company while female, from leadership style to sexual harassment and gender bias–and ultimately as business-people what it takes to scale.
Selina Tobaccowala, Aarthi Ramamurthy, Heather Fernandez, Cheryl Contee and Lauren Schiller
Photo courtesy of Women In Product