Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

Series produced by KALW

Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
Image by: Frank King 
Lauren Schiller, Host 

A weekly, one-hour show about how women rise up.

"Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller is a gem of a radio show...an hour of engaging and intelligent conversation with women who are making a difference. Do your listeners a favor and give them a chance to hear Inflection Point." --Hawk Mendenhall, KUT, Austin, TX

On Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks with women who have risen to a challenge, stepped up to create change and are ready to tell their stories. Every episode offers experiences and ideas our listeners can apply to their own lives. From KALW San Francisco and PRX.

Most shows are evergreen, you could air them now. New season coming June, 2020.


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143 Pieces

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61: "Teen Hackz" Founders and Fay Zenoff, "Center For Open Recovery"
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Caption: Lisa McDonough & Lisa Allanson
Lauren talks with Lisa Allanson and Lisa McDonough, the founders of Teen Hackz, a program designed to help teens understand themselves and others. ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
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60: Jessica Jin, Leader of Campus Carry Gun Law Protest & Joann Lublin, Author of "Earning It"
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Caption: Joann Lublin
Jessica Jin led the protests last fall over the new campus carry gun law at her alma mater, University of Texas at Austin. Her weapon of choice? A ...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
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59: America The Anxious; Cooperative Games; Negotiate in "Man Pants"
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Caption: Ruth Whippman
Lauren's guests this week are Ruth Whippman, author of "America the Anxious. How The Pursuit Of Happiness Is Making Us A Nation of Nervous Wrecks";...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
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58:Tiffany Shlain, Regaining Equality; Zoe Elton Reviews "Arrival"
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Tiffany Shlain has been nominated for an Emmy for her filmmaking, she's founder of the Webby Awards and Newsweek called her one of the women shapin...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
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57: Eve Ensler "The Undeniable Rape Culture of Donald Trump"; Dr. Alison Crossley on Millennial Feminism
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Eve Ensler is known for creating "The Vagina Monologues," as well as VDay and One Billion Rising. Eve and I spoke about her work fighting violence ...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
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56: Anna Lappé & Jess McIntosh; Plus "Vote!" OpEd by Katie Goodman
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Caption: Anna Lappé
James Beard Leadership Award winner Anna Lappé has spent most of her career as a sustainable food advocate. We talk big food and marketing to kids-...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
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55: Tracey Taylor & Lance Knobel, Berkeleyside; Arlie Hochschild "Strangers In Their Own Land"; Review of "Certain Women"
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Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel are the co-founders of the "hyper-local" news site Berkeleyside.com and Uncharted, The Berkeley Festival of Ideas. W...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
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54: Margarita Quihuis, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab
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Caption: Margarita Quihuis
Using behavior design techniques and persuasive technology (like the kind that keeps you scrolling through your social feed), Margarita Quihuis and...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
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53: Joan Blades, founder of MoveOn.org & Kate Schatz author of "Rad Women Worldwide"
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Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising and Living Room Conversations. Now she has teamed up with Republican John Gable on ...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
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52: Roz Hudnell of Intel on Gender & Racial Diversity in Tech; Amy Whitaker, Author of "Art Thinking"
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Caption: Roz Hudnell, Intel
Meet one woman leading the charge to quite literally change the face of technology--by bringing in more women and people of color to the industry, ...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
51: The "Lady Tax"; BuzzFeed Parents' Editor Talks Maternal Mental Health
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Caption: Vivien Labaton, Make It Work
We've heard a lot about making things easier for families this election season, but the cost of childcare is still higher than college tuition in s...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
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50: Starting A Fashion Company in Liberia; Investing With Impact
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Caption: Archel Bernard, The Bombchel Factory, Credit: James K Holder
In the midst of the Ebola crisis in 2015, Archel Bernard moved from Atlanta, Georgia to Monrovia, Liberia and started a fashion company--that emplo...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
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49: Bridesmaid For Hire-Jen Glantz & Renewable Energy Startup Program-Dawn Lippert
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Caption: Jen Glantz
Jen Glantz attended so many weddings, she went into debt, then wrote a book about it called 'All My Friends are Engaged.' On a whim, Jen thought sh...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 52:59
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48:Nancy Santiago Negrón, Lending To The Poor & Simine Vazire, Changing Research Approaches
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Caption: Nancy Santiago Negrón
Nancy Santiago Negrón of the Opportunity Finance Network shares why it took three calls from the White House for her to join the Women's Bureau at ...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
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47: Nancy Duarte & Patti Sanchez on Transformational Leadership; Maria Molland Selby on Sharing Spaces
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Caption: Patti Sanchez and Nancy Duarte
Leaders are leaders right? How much should they care what other people think? It turns out it's not enough to just have a great idea and people wil...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
46: Reshma Saujani of "Girls Who Code" and Jen Harris, co-author of "War By Other Means"
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Caption: Jennifer Harris
"Women come to Washington to do something, men come to be someone." --Jennifer Harris, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
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45: Dr. Amanda Foreman "The Ascent of Woman" & Annie Brown - The Decline of Women Coaches
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Caption: Dr. Amanda Foreman
Award-winning historian Dr. Amanda Foreman argues that a history that pushes women to the margins is an untruth that must be challenged. To this en...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
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44: NARAL President, Ilyse Hogue & "Endo-What?" documentary filmmaker, Shannon Cohn
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Caption: Ilyse Hogue
Will the debate over reproductive freedom ever end? Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America joins me to discuss why we continue to have a clash of ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
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43: Girls & Sex & Fuitina: Peggy Orenstein and Antonella Vitale
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Caption: Peggy Orenstein, Credit: Michael Todd
Birds do it. Bees do it. But we definitely don't want to think about our teens doing it. For her new book, "Girls and Sex. Navigating the Complicat...

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  • Added: May 25, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
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42: Kerri Hoffman, CEO of PRX & Dr. Toni Heineman, founder "A Home Within"
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Caption: Kerri Hoffman, CEO, PRX
What does the future look like for how audio content gets distributed--and heard? And what will it take to make podcasting and broadcasting a susta...

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  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3

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