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On Behalf of the President
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Lauren A. Wright
First ladies have been a vital part of American policy and politics since the election of George Washington.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
63: Firuzeh Mahmoudi, United4Iran; Samantha Miller To Bring Birth Control Pill Over The Counter
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Firuzeh Mahmoudi
Firuzeh Mahmoudi's organization United4Iran is using technology to improve civil liberties in Iran. And Samantha Miller is leading a pharma company...

Bought by KWMR, XRAY.fm, WLPR , WGBH Radio Boston, KUNM and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 53:25
  • Purchases: 8
62: After The Women's March, What Now?; The Sound of Sexism
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Rhea Suh, NRDC, Credit: Zoe Fisher
This episode features: Conversations with Rhea Suh, president of NRDC on why they partnered with the Women's March; and Jess McIntosh, of Signal Bo...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KZYX, WLPR , CHSR-FM 97.9, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 8
Woman's March-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Mother & Daughter -Women's March NYC
Mixing the voices of millions of marchers around the country and the globe with music from the protest movement and the history of freedom fighters...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 1
58:Tiffany Shlain, Regaining Equality; Zoe Elton Reviews "Arrival"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Tiffany Shlain
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...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, WRIR, KWMR, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
57: Eve Ensler "The Undeniable Rape Culture of Donald Trump"; Dr. Alison Crossley on Millennial Feminism
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Eve Ensler
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 ...

Bought by KCSB-FM, Public Radio for All, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WRIR, KWMR and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
56: Anna Lappé & Jess McIntosh; Plus "Vote!" OpEd by Katie Goodman
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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-...

Bought by Public Radio for All, KUT, WRIR, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
55: Tracey Taylor & Lance Knobel, Berkeleyside; Arlie Hochschild "Strangers In Their Own Land"; Review of "Certain Women"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Tracey Taylor
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...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WRIR, KWMR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
09292016: Want change...VOTE: Why & How the Upcoming Election Needs YOU!, 9/29/2016
From: KBUU
Series: Harvesting Happiness Talk Radio
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on voting. Guests C...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 51:28
53: Joan Blades, founder of MoveOn.org & Kate Schatz author of "Rad Women Worldwide"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Joan Blades
Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising and Living Room Conversations. Now she has teamed up with Republican John Gable on ...

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, WRIR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
46: Reshma Saujani of "Girls Who Code" and Jen Harris, co-author of "War By Other Means"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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...

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, WMUU-LP, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
44: NARAL President, Ilyse Hogue & "Endo-What?" documentary filmmaker, Shannon Cohn
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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 ...

Bought by KWMR, WRIR, KSJD, WMUU-LP, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
08-11: Women and Power: "Power Over" or "Power To"?, 5/25/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Gloria Feldt
Around the world, women are inspiring each other to envision a world where women lead, but quite differently. Women are spontaneously redefining po...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
The Speed of Sound: Lissie
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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My Wild West may be Lissie’s third album, but she’s been on the scene for well over 10 years in various projects. Still, this new album finds her a...

Bought by KUCB, KSRQ, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 4
24: Gloria Steinem on her Life On The Road" & Dr. Lina Nilsson on How to Attract Female Engineers
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Gloria Steinem, Credit: Annie Leibovitz
Writer, activist, and social entrepreneur Gloria Steinem speaks with Lauren about her new book "My Life on the Road." Plus she shares her advice on...

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, WMUU-LP, KSJD, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 11, 2015
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Mr. Female Members of Knesset
From: Israel Story
Caption: Mishy Harman and his grandmother, Zena Harman.
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 21:25
A Citizen's Guide to the Difference Between Telling the Truth and an Attack
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Fourth grade girls know the truth's power., Credit: Susan Cook
I heard Jill Abramson , the former executive editor of the New York Times say recently that since the George W. Bush administration, there have be...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:51
E-TEAM -- Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Ross Kauffman, Katy Chevigny, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang talk mental balance, cultural sensitivity, and images that they can’t shake.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 26:12
02-12: Escaping Control: Linking Gender, Social Movements and Democracy, 11/26/2014
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Gloria Steinem
World-renowned feminist, writer and change-maker Gloria Steinem connects the dots among disparate social movements to reveal the common patterns of...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
TSWI Ep 7 - #ChicagoGirl: Ala'a Basatneh, helping fight a revolution on the other side of the world
From: WBEZ
Series: The State We're In (WBEZ)
Caption: Ala'a Basatneh, activist
Ala'a Basatneh was once a mall-loving “average Arab-American teenager.” When the Syrian Civil War started, she became #ChicagoGirl, the center of a...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 25:58
  • Purchases: 1
Suzette Jordan does the unthinkable!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Suzette Jordan, Credit: Sandip Roy
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Maria, from Mangalia to Europe
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Maria in Mangalia, Credit: Anton Foek
Maria is a young and vibrant woman from Mangalia in Romenia and doing her international studies about European integration in Maastricht, Holland.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2013
  • Length: 14:33
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: A Woman of Her Word
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry:A Woman of Her Word Moral inquiry means asking questions about what is the right thing to do. So,...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: :59
Margaret Mead
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:36