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Female truckers: Meet the women behind the wheels

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf

Fewer than 10% of truck drivers are women, and this episode of Audacious, meet three of them: One drives a tow truck, another owns a CDL training s...

Rose Droll & Boy Scouts: Central Valley Folk

From: Samuel Robinson

Caption: Rail crossing, Credit: Samuel Robinson

Taylor Vick, known as Boy Scouts, and Rose Droll are San Francisco musicians based in the fog-kissed Sunset District. They craft original songs, bl...

Woman-Owned Bait Shop Fosters Community in Harris, MN

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

Caption: Berlin Miscevich, owner of Fish Lake Premium, fetches some minnows for a customer., Credit: Ann Ward

Locally owned bait shops aren't as common across Minnesota as they once were. A young woman who owns a bait shop about an hour north of the Twin Ci...

Con Mujeres: Beva Sanchez Padilla & Yahaira Carreras

From: Generation Justice Admin

“Organizing with a caring heart” - listen in on this powerful conversation between two New Mexican community organizers, women at opposite ends of ...

Sometimes It's The Simple Things

From: WPLN - Nashville Public Radio
Series: Versify (shorts)

In many families, there’s that one person who plays family historian.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Untangle

From: Andy Short

This piece is a lil profile of Kaycee Snowden. She's a badass knitter and old school artisan -though she didn't come by her craft easily. To check...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

StoryCorps: Barb Abelhauser and John Maycumber

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Barb Abelhauser explains how she quit an office job she hated and became a bridgetender, beginning a career she quickly fell in love with.

Bought by WEZU and Blue Mountain Radio

#SCFlood The Local Buzz

From: Sloane Spencer

Caption: South Carolina Strong, Credit: Sloane Spencer

Two weeks before devastating flooding ravaged South Carolina, Stephanie Bridgers opened a community coffee shop, just blocks from one of many delug...

Valentine's Day

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

Would you believe that some teens view Valentine's Day as shallow and expensive? Others see it as an opportunity to demonstrate appreciation. Car...

Bought by KTSW 89.9

Life in a New World

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions

As a little girl my mom always felt different because she was living in a world where she was the minority. Coming to a new country was not easy, b...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

A Proust Questionnaire with Helen Oyeyemi

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts

When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix

Stand My Ground III

From: Littleglobe

Singer/songwriter, Willa Snow, learned about standing her ground when her musical passion was compromised.

StoryCorps: Don and Mackenzie Byles

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Don Byles talks to his daughter Mackenzie about their family's funeral home.

Bought by WEZU and Prairie Public

Culturology: "Tea Pots" an essay from Anne Dunn

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology

Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KHSU

Big Mirror Moment

From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio

It's not always easy to examine yourself in front of the mirror, especially as you acknowledge out loud what you consider to be your deepest physic...

The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Arrangement In Gray and Black"

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat

Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Arrangement In Gray and Black." The Beat is a daily reminder that...

StoryCorps: Phil Donney and Abby Leibman

From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps

Caption: Abby Leibman with her nephew Phil Donney

Phil Donney talks with his aunt Abby Leibman about raising Phil and his sister, Laura, after their mother was murdered.

Bought by WEZU, KMUD, and KUOW

StoryCorps: René and Michelle Foreman

From: StoryCorps

Caption: René Foreman (R) and her daughter Michelle (L)

René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx.

Bought by WEZU

Kristy Portrait

From: Jamie Courville

Kristy is about to have her first child. She is nervous and excited, and wants to be the perfect parent.

Bought by KUOW and KUT

Mother's Day 2010: A Mother's Love 10-18

From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone

Our relationship with Mom this week on The Score with Edmund Stone.

Bought by 'The Sea' and KPVL

Art and Women.

From: Kinsee Morlan
Series: This Small Town Life

Yet another nod to Women's History month: Rebecca Barfoot talks about her art.

A Horse Named "Buckwheat"

From: Rogi Riverstone

What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...