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Caption: Kasey O'Connell, Fif Ghobadian and Alice Cahan, Credit: Road Twenty-Two
Iran-born Fif Ghobadian created San Francisco fashion brand Road Twenty-Two to provide jobs for women released from prison.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 13:36
Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor
Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
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
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Home is a complicated concept - especially if you have a few of them. What does it feel like to not fit, in a place that you should call home?

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Nov 11, 2016
  • Length: 22:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Melissa Austria, Founder of GotStyle
Toronto retailer Melissa Austria has created thriving menswear stores that appeal to guys who hate to shop but want to look good.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 11:44
Caption: Rebecca Smith
Season 2 - Better Life Bags Social Enterprise Romy interviews Rebecca Smith with Better Life Bags in Hamtramck of Detroit. Hear the incredible st...

  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 35:32
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High School Senior, Eavan Burke, had a life changing experience on the tea plantations of Kenya, Africa. She decided to aid to the workers by creat...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 1
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At the mere age of 16, Jihana Mendu went on the adventure of a lifetime to Peru. While there to pursue her ambition of working in the medical field...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
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In the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, Khanvisile Motsa brings hope to orphans from Africa's rural areas through providing a home, education...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 03:57
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One Ethiopian woman works to remove obstacles for women pursuing an education.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
We hear a male perspective on gender roles from 22-year-old Tibemoni Bakou of Nadoba, Togo.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:21
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Three junior high school girls present a skit on ideal love. Host Carla Seidl interviews a 22-year-old male student about gender equality and share...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 19:46
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Two female high school student writers present original dialogue and poetry and speak about responsible behavior and putting off marriage.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:58
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Host Carla Seidl speaks with young scholar and Dankpen Prefecture beauty pageant winner Prisca Nantob about studying, sexual harassment, and a woma...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:34
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
Caption: Pam McKissick Without Reserve
In this episode of "Without Reserve" host Pam McKissick takes a look at small companies doing big business in foreign lands. Her special guests in...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2014
  • Length: 51:40
Caption: Lisa Fruchtman, San Francisco, CA 11/22/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Lisa Fruchtman talks simple pleasures, honoring the past, and warming up to cold.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 21:51
Caption: Livia Firth, yes, Mrs Colin Firth, Eco Age
Livia Firth, Eco Age, speaking to KGNU's Claudia Cragg in person @INYTLuxury held recently in Singapore says that girls or young women should wear ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:10
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Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2013
  • Length: 13:16
Caption: Haifaa Al-Mansour, San Francisco, CA 9/16/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Haifaa Al-Mansour talks cinematic heritage, female empowerment, and why she had to film in Saudi Arabia.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 19:15
Caption: Marian Mc Partland, Credit: Yoshis Jazz Club
Jazz singer and radio host Melanie O'Reilly of "Jazz on the Bay" met with pianist and Piano Jazz host Marian McPartland in 2007 when Marian was 89 ...

Bought by WDCB and KCSM


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 57:44
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Two girls rescued from sex traffickers, Credit: Phillip Martin
Vietnam is losing its children. For years, girls and young women have been taken — kidnapped and trafficked across the border into Cambodia and so...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Jane York and Nura Adam embrace at a meeting, Credit: Lisa Merrill, Bellevue WA
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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They and their husbands helped to form the 14th of June Movement, named for the 1959 organized uprising against the Trujillo regime.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
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After re-establishing her power, whenever the armies of other Indian lords attacked Jhansi, Lakshmibai was reportedly seen riding horseback into ba...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:11