Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
198 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsCOMING THIS MARCH, 2023! From the creator of Inflection Point: a five-part Women’s History Month mini-series, featuring inspiration and advice for a feminist future from trailblazers making change right now! Grab a copy of our new book based on Inflection Point interviews called It’s a Good Day to Change the World at itsagooddaybook.com.
Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller is one of the only nationally syndicated radio shows and one of the first podcasts ever dedicated exclusively to featuring conversations with women about how we build power, what we do with it when we have it, and what still stands in our way.
In every episode you’ll hear incredible stories from activists, entrepreneurs, and authority-busters about how they build power and lead change for an equal, just, and joy-filled world. You’ll come away from every conversation with context, hope and inspiration. Plus, you’ll get expert advice and the tools you need to take action on the issues that matter to you–at home, at work and in the world. Produced in partnership with KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco and PRX. inflectionpointradio.org
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Inside The Ferguson Uprising - Sabaah Folayan, Director of "Whose Streets?"
August 21, 2019 13:00 - 23 minutes - 22 MBThis is a special re-airing in recognition of the 5th anniversary of the Ferguson, MO protests. When Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, MO in August, 2014 and the protests began, Sabaah Folayan felt the media’s coverage was overly focused on the looting, rioting and property damage, and not nearly enough on the stories of the people who rose up. So she dropped everything and went to Ferguson to see for herself what was happening on the ground and to talk with ...
A Survivor And Her Perpetrator Find Justice- "Reckonings" Guest episode!
August 14, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBOn the podcast “Reckonings” host Stephanie Lepp posed the questions: “what does it sound like for a survivor of sexual assault to get her needs met?” “What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for his sexual abuse of power?” To answer these questions, Stephanie spoke with a sexual abuse survivor and her perpetrator, who managed to work through it using restorative justice. It's an amazing story, and as part of the Inflection Point summer swap series, here is t...
Paid Family Leave: We Can Do Better- "The Double Shift" Guest episode!
July 31, 2019 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBWelcome to a summer season episode swap featuring Katherine Goldstein of The Double Shift podcast. Earlier in the season, I shared my conversation with Katie Bethell, the founder of Paid Leave for the US--or PLUS, an advocacy group working to win paid leave for everyone--whether you need to care for yourself or others. While Katie and I were talking, another podcast that I follow, hosted by Katherine Goldstein, called “The Double Shift” about working mothers...also did a story--wi...
Summertime! Summertime! Where we've been...where we're going
July 29, 2019 13:00 - 3 minutes - 3.34 MBI am so glad you’re catching our current season about “radicals”-- Radical actions, radical system change and the people who are making it happen right now: In the workplace--if you’re still catching up, check out my conversations with Katie Bethel of Paid Leave for the US & Morgan Mercer who is using Virtual Reality to end sexual harassment... Or if government policy is your thing—you’ll love hearing from the team experimenting with Basic Income in Stockton, CA...and don’t miss S...
Author Jennifer Weiner on Writing a Radical Beach Read
July 17, 2019 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBThe times, they are a’changin’. This week on Inflection Point, I talk to author Jennifer Weiner about her newest bestselling book “Mrs. Everything”. The story is loosely based on Jennifer’s own mother, Fran, who got married, had 4 children and ultimately came out as a gay woman after Jennifer and her siblings were out of the house. Spanning two sisters’ lives from the 1950s to the night of the 2016 political election, the book raises questions about who is really making women’s choi...
How to Fight Like A Mother - Shannon Watts, Moms Demand Action
July 03, 2019 13:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MBMeet Shannon Watts, the author of Fight Like a Mother, and the founder of Moms Demand Action, a group that uses research, data, and a little bit of “nap-tivism” to throw their weight and money behind political candidates who are willing to put better gun control laws into action. The kicker? They’re winning. In the last election, they outspent even the NRA. Join us this week for a look at why our kids are subjected to violent and traumatizing active shooter drills, and what it take...
Eve Ensler and the Radically Transformative Power of Apology
June 19, 2019 13:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBThis week on Inflection Point, I talk with Eve Ensler, award-winning playwright of The Vagina Monologues, about her new book “The Apology”, in which she writes in the voice of her father to apologize to herself--from him--for the years of sexual and physical abuse he perpetrated upon her. Stress warning: This episode contains conversation about sexual assault and violence. You will be blown away by Eve’s resilience, by her self-knowledge, by her strength of character, and by her d...
Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell Is Seizing the Moment to Fight for Radical Policy Change
June 05, 2019 13:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBAmerica is one of only two countries in the world where you can be fired for taking a day off in order to give birth (let that sink in for a moment). As it stands, paid leave policy varies from company to company, state to state, but on a national level, there is no policy in place, no minimum requirements or baseline standard that applies to everyone. And it’s not just about moms—this lack of policy also has greater repercussions for how we define a family, in a political sense, a...
The End of Human Trafficking May Begin With Radical Empathy - Julia Flynn Siler
May 22, 2019 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBIn 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown only 1 in 10 people were women, and most of them were forced into prostitution, trafficked by criminal tongs. In today’s episode, meet the Scottish sewing instructor Donaldina Cameron and the women she collaborated with and helped escape from sex slavery between 1870 and 1930. This week, Julia Flynn Siler talks with Lauren about her new book “The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown”. Prepare you...
A Radical Plan To End Poverty - The Stockton Experiment
May 08, 2019 13:00 - 45 minutes - 41.9 MBThis week, we hear about a radical idea to end poverty: Universal Basic Income. Lauren talks to the team behind an experiment with Guaranteed Income taking place in Stockton, CA the one-time foreclosure capital of America where 1 in 4 people live below the poverty line. Featuring conversations with Mayor Michael Tubbs, Natalie Foster of the Economic Security Project, and the co-principal investigators on this experiment: Dr. Amy Castro Baker of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr...
Can Virtual Reality End Real-World Sexual Harassment? - Morgan Mercer
April 10, 2019 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBIn the post-#MeToo era, men who would never consider saying a harassing word or venture a grope are now asking themselves “can I hug a co-worker anymore?” **** “Can I put my arm around someone in a photo?” “Can I have dinner with a female co-worker...alone?” For the most part, workplace sexual harassment training includes the same rote video, awkward role-playing scenarios or yawn-inducing speaker, and is not remotely equipped to end a culture of enabling harassers or dismissing ...
A Radical Shift in How We Raise and Treat Boys - Dr. Michael Reichert
March 27, 2019 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBLast season on Inflection Point, we explored the concept of empowerment for women. And one of the many things we learned is that we can’t hope to achieve equality if only one gender is doing the work. Since I recorded that episode a new report came out from the American Psychological Association about the harms of ‘traditional masculinity.’ Yet not everyone is ready to accept this finding. So... what else needs to change in our culture, to enable boys and men to see women as their e...
How Radical Change Happens - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
March 13, 2019 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBTimes like these call for radical ideas. But is being a radical a positive thing? And if so, why are so many radicals seen as dangerous? In the first episode of the new season of Inflection Point: RADICALS, we’ll define what it really means to be a radical, look at some of the lasting change radicals have made throughout our history, and examine how those ideas went from unthinkable to mainstream. I invited Rad Women book series’ creators Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl to ta...
Gloria Steinem & Favianna Rodriguez at the Castro Theatre
February 27, 2019 14:00 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBThis special episode features my live conversation with activist, writer and feminist organizer, Gloria Steinem and Oakland-based artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez. The legendary Gloria Steinem is the author of several best-selling books, was a founding editor of and political commentator for New York Magazine and a founding editor of Ms. Favianna Rodriguez’s art and collaborative projects address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. Favianna is also t...
Radical Resilience: Comedian Katie Goodman on the Power of Improv to Come Up With Radical Ideas
February 13, 2019 14:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBThis season I’m introducing you to the radical geniuses who are reshaping the systems as we know them. But according to today’s guest, we can all be radical geniuses by embracing a mindset of flexibility and resilience. Katie Goodman is a professional improviser and a comedian. Over the last twenty years her team has taught about 10,000 people from individuals to corporate groups how to use the tools of improv comedy in everyday life. Today, we’ll talk about how the powers of im...
Season 9 Trailer: Meet the "Radicals" on Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
February 11, 2019 15:00 - 1 minute - 1.67 MBThis season Lauren introduces you to the “radical” people who are reshaping the systems as we know them--to get us closer to an equal society. New episodes every other Wednesday. Support our production with a tax deductible contribution. Click here. You contribute. We produce more episodes. Change happens.
“Let it be messy. Be uncertain." And other advice for 2019
January 30, 2019 14:00 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBAs we finish up the first month of 2019 and embark upon the rest of what will no doubt be a tumultuous year, let’s hear some words of wisdom from a couple previous guests on how to be more intersectional in our feminism and what small, radical acts women and men can take to accelerate change. I’m revisiting advice that will give us hope and motivation in our march toward our goal of equality, while I work on my next season for you. Subscribe to “Inflection Point” to get more stori...
“Don’t cry, strategize” How Khalida Brohi is fighting honor killing in rural Pakistan
January 16, 2019 14:00 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBKhalida Brohi was a teenager when she learned that her uncle had murdered her cousin to restore his family’s honor. Her cousin’s crime: falling in love with a boy who she wasn’t betrothed to marry. Since 2008, Khalida Brohi has been working to end honor killings and domestic violence in the indigenous communities of Pakistan. Her work has led to raising awareness abroad and at home and pressuring the Pakistani government to close loopholes in the law that allowed men to get away wi...
How tyrants rise to power, "Divide and Conquer" filmmaker Alexis Bloom
January 02, 2019 14:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBFox News has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars to silence women who were sexually harassed and assaulted while working there. The story of former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes’ rise to power and eventual downfall is the story of enablers: people who are willing to look the other way when a predator abuses people, and who are willing to step in and muzzle the victims he leaves in his wake. This story is still happening every day. How do tyrants win such undying loyalt...
The reality of rising up: patriarchy is the problem, not men
December 19, 2018 14:00 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBAfter asking the question all season: "Does all this female empowerment we’re striving for really lead to actual power?" The kind of power that puts women in charge of our bodies, our workplaces, our laws, and our futures... And asking people working in politics, business, tech and media who have a lot to say about empowerment to weigh in on these questions, I have an answer--sort of! Spoiler alert: the answers they gave led to more questions. But really, really important questions....
“Put down your male fragility”: Scene On Radio’s John Biewen & Celeste Headlee
December 05, 2018 14:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBWhat’s going on with men? Why is it so hard to negotiate the gender power dynamic in everyday situations, like work meetings? Can masculinity exist without its more toxic forms? And why can men get away with sexual misconduct---and even end up seeming like the “real” victim when they’re accused? While I’ve taken this season of Inflection Point to focus on what women can do to rise up and have more power, John Biewen and Celeste Headlee of the podcast Scene on Radio - MEN have been...
More than power poses: why self-empowerment is a myth and what we can do instead - Ruth Whippman, author
November 21, 2018 14:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBAuthor Ruth Whippman has been studying the self-improvement industry for years. She’s come to the conclusion that empowerment feminism is, well, BS. According to Ruth, systemic change doesn’t come from trendy girl-power t-shirts or aspirational Instagram quotes. In fact, Ruth thinks the conceit that women could make equality happen if we just...empowered ourselves more shifts the blame for a system of injustice to individuals with the least power to effect change. So how women are...
“Algorithms of Oppression” - Dr. Safiya Noble on the embedded misogyny and racism of search engines
November 07, 2018 14:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBDr. Safiya Noble was studying Library Science when an academic colleague suggested she google ”black girls.” The top search results were images that perpetuated negative stereotypes, misogyny and exploitation. That discovery was the beginning of an investigation that eventually became Safiya’s book, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”. Immediate access to powerful search engines is seen as an empowering force in this world, but what if our reliance on se...
There Is No Peak Fury - Rebecca Traister, Author of "Good And Mad: The Revolutionary Power Of Women’s Anger"
October 24, 2018 13:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBThere’s a reason that women are angry. Since the founding of this country, we have been faced with men in power who are set on shutting us down, and shutting us out. Revolutionary fury isn’t just for the founding fathers. And ladies, even though we’ve been stewing in our ever-growing anger for the past 242 years, we have just begun to fight. Listen to my conversation with Rebecca Traister, author of the New York Times Bestseller, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s An...
Running For Office In the Era of #MeToo: Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade
October 10, 2018 13:00 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBAt age 32, Minnesota State Representative Erin Maye Quade is positioned to be at the forefront of a wave of progressive political leaders representing a new generation of voters. She made history while running in the Twin Cities suburbs as a deeply progressive, biracial, openly queer, anti-gun violence, anti-racist, pro-social justice candidate. There’s no doubt she’ll rise high and go far. The question is: as an unprecedented amount of women run for office and have a good chan...
Death by Diversity Initiative & The Myth of Meritocracy - Dr. Barbara Adams
September 26, 2018 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBOrganizational psychologist Dr. Barbara Adams says there is transformational power for everyone in diversity and inclusivity, but initiatives like employee training days and inclusive hiring aren’t enough. What we need, says Dr. Adams, is a fundamental shift in mindset about our implicit biases and how they affect every aspect of organizations, from what’s on the walls, to hiring practices and beyond. And the goal shouldn’t be to eliminate biases, but to acknowledge them and to do ...
A Boardroom Of Our Own - Julia Rhodes Davis, Vote.org and The Partnership on AI
September 12, 2018 13:00 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBAsk any woman who’s sat through a long meeting surrounded by men, and she could tell you how exhausting it can be: we struggle to make ourselves heard while carefully avoiding accusations of being ‘bitchy,’ ‘strident,’ or ‘shrill.’ We rarely have the kind of permission to fail that our male counterparts get. We want to take ownership of what little power is tossed our way, yet we’re always at risk of being punished for wielding such power. Which is why Julia Rhodes Davis decided to...
Inflection Point Season 8 Trailer: "Empowerment"
September 08, 2018 19:00 - 2 minutes - 2.39 MBIt’s 2018 and women are more empowered than ever. But how do we turn that into actual power? We’re living in the era of the Women’s March, #MeToo, the surge of women in politics and t-shirts proclaiming “the future is female.” Then again, Roe vs Wade is under threat of being overturned, confessed sexual harassers get standing ovations at comedy clubs, and female political candidates of all parties are threatened and harassed on a daily basis. This season, the podcast Inflection ...
A Brief But Spectacular Conversation - Special Live Episode
August 29, 2018 13:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBAfter Brief But Spectacular creator Steve Goldbloom filmed 94-year-old retired English teacher Flossie Lewis and “Black Girl Magic” poet activist Mahogany L. Browne, their short segments on PBS NewsHour went unexpectedly viral. Although they come from entirely different backgrounds, the two women share a deep passion for language and an appreciation of its power to heal and to harm. Join our live conversation, recorded at the Commonwealth Club to learn how, despite our differences, ...
Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake Gives the C-Suite a Makeover
August 15, 2018 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBAt age 35, Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake became the youngest female founder and CEO to take a company public in 2017. Stitch Fix is now worth over two billion dollars. She has not only changed the way many of us shop for clothes, but she’s also changing how we think about leaders. Find out how she learned to embrace her history-making role as the youngest woman to take a startup to IPO, in this conversation at INFORUM at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Subscribe to “Infle...
When Teachers are Trusted to Teach - Gabrielle Howard, Saint Ann's School
August 01, 2018 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBWhat happens when teachers are given the freedom to inspire a lifelong love of learning? In this episode, I talk with Gabrielle Howard, who recently retired as the head of the Lower School at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, where she worked for 35 years. We’ll talk about why she dedicated her life to fostering a love of learning in young children, why she let them swear in her office, how a school without grades can produce high-achieving graduating classes time and time again, and...
How Kids' Books Inspire Activism - Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl
July 18, 2018 13:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBNow and then a “girl power” book pops up that is truly inspiring and, better yet, timely. And even better, written by actual feminists, parents, and educators who want to use their books to incite change by creating role models our daughters and sons can relate to. Sounds pretty rad right? That’s actually the name of a book series...”Rad Women”...”Rad Women A to Z”; “Rad Women Worldwide”, and now, those women Kate Schatz and her co-author/illustrator the rad Miriam Klein Stahl are ...
What Trans Women Can Teach Cis Women (and vice versa) - Daniela Petruzelak, Diversity Activist
July 04, 2018 13:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBDaniela Petruzalek is an accomplished software engineer from Brazil, who started working with computers at the age of 14. She’s always tried to fit into the male dominated field, but it was in direct conflict with who she really was, even growing up. The thing is, Daniela has lived most of her life as a male. But three years ago, she took the leap to transition to her true female self and had to fight her own internal prejudices. And not only that, she was now competing in that sam...
What Happens When Sexual Assault Goes Unpunished: Sarah Delia, “She Says”
June 20, 2018 13:00 - 45 minutes - 42 MBWhen radio journalist Sarah Delia heard a story about the sexual assault of one of her station’s listeners, “Linda” (not her real name), she knew it was a story that needed to be told. It’s also a story about how one survivor took matters into her own hands when the police department she turned to for help seemed to be failing to help her. And it’s a story about how our criminal justice system handles sexual assault cases nationwide--and what needs to change to make violence against...
Are We Teaching Girls Too Much Empathy? -Emily Abad, The Mosaic Project
June 06, 2018 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBEmpathy is often seen as the magic bullet against intolerance. But when we take on too much empathy for others it can be difficult to create emotional boundaries when it comes to our own needs. At the same time, when we put up emotional walls, we’re judged as being selfish, cold or “bossy.”** ** Emily Abad is someone who was raised to always put others’ needs ahead of her own and not speak up for herself. She’s always struggled to find that perfect balance between empathy and asse...
How to Age Without Apology - Nina Collins, author of "What Would Virginia Woolf Do?"
May 23, 2018 13:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBWhat's so monumental about turning 40 that women need their own Facebook group? Turns out--pretty much everything. From discussing fashion to friendship to feminism, work and health Nina Collins has created an "environment that's a little like Vegas...our special place to talk about what's really going on in our lives..." But why don't real life friends fill that need? Collins turned what she learned from the group--and her own experience with hitting 40–into a book, "What Would Vir...
Do Haters Deserve Our Compassion? - Sally Kohn, author of "The Opposite of Hate"
May 09, 2018 13:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBCan you find compassion in your heart for the haters in your life? Should you? CNN political commentator and first-time author Sally Kohn says if we keep on hating the haters, the cycle of hate will never end. She’s believes compassion to be one of the keys to breaking the cycle of hatred that pervades our culture in today’s divisive world. The question is, how can compassion defeat a system fuelled by hate? Listen in on my conversation with Sally Kohn, author of "The Opposite of...
"I am powerful by just living" - Sarah McBride, LGBTQ activist & author of "Tomorrow Will Be Different"
April 25, 2018 13:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBSarah McBride made history as the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016. As of 2018, more than half of LGBTQ people live in states that don’t protect them from discrimination or are even actively hostile towards them. In the most challenging moments--the 2016 election results, everyday sexism and misogyny and the death of her young husband--even then she fights to update our laws to protect and include LGBTQ people. Her vision and focus on ach...
Is 'Girl Power' Creating a Mental Health Crisis? - Rachel Simmons, author "Enough As She Is"
April 11, 2018 13:00 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBFor many girls today, the relentless pursuit of accomplishment is fueled by harsh self-criticism and an acute fear of failure. Rachel Simmons has been researching young women for two decades, and her research plainly shows that girl competence does not equal girl confidence—nor does it equal happiness, resilience, or self-worth. As an educator and author of "Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling Lives", ...
Why Rosie the Riveter is "Not my icon” - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
March 28, 2018 13:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBFor the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park. But the triumphant story of the now ubiquitous feminist icon, Rosie the Riveter, is not Betty’s story. While Rosie was breaking barriers for twentieth century white women in the workforce, Black women like Betty and her slave ancestors had been serving as laborers “outside the home” for centuries. I...
My Privilege Wakeup Call with Ijeoma Oluo, author of "So You Want To Talk About Race"
March 14, 2018 13:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBAn awkward conversation with her white mother about “good white people” inspired Ijeoma Oluo to take on the unenviable task of writing one of the most user-friendly books on race of our time: “So You Want To Talk About Race.” In plain language, Ijeoma has confronted deeply uncomfortable questions surrounding racial injustice from the school-to-prison pipeline to the Black Lives Matter movement to white feminism and intersectionality. In our conversation, Ijeoma helps me to understa...
Inflection Point Season 7 Trailer "Uncomfortable Conversations"
March 10, 2018 22:19 - 1 minute - 1.5 MBConversations with women rising up and making history—and how you can too. It’s time for some tough conversations about what women are up against right now and what to do about it. So how can everyday women and men rise up and make true equality happen? On Inflection Point I’m joined by experts and policy makers; authors and activists who are pounding on doors and breaking them down...And calling it out when something’s not right. These are the tough conversations women are havi...
How Girls Change The World - Paola Gianturco & Alex Sangster
February 28, 2018 14:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBThere are girls all around the globe addressing tough issues that no young person should have to deal with--but must, by the luck of where and when they were born. Things like child marriage, sex trafficking, limited access to education, and poverty. Over 100 of these girls who have decided to do something about the problems in their community are featured in a new book called "Wonder Girls: Changing Our World." It was written by photojournalist Paola Gianturco and her 11 year old g...
How To Take Your Reproductive Destiny Into Your Own Hands - Author Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
February 14, 2018 14:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBWhy should biology decide when--or how--you'll have a baby? And what do advances in medical science mean for the feminist movement? As journalist Rachael Lehmann-Haupt investigated new reproductive technologies, she was faced with her own, personal 'ticking biological clock.' She tells us how she came to her own decision about having a child, and shares the pros and cons of having a baby on your own. Her book is “In Her Own Sweet Time”. Love hearing from the women I talk with on I...
How To Welcome A Refugee-Christina Psarra, Doctors Without Borders
January 31, 2018 14:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MBWhat can women refugees teach us about how to rise up? Christina Psarra, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian aid organization, bears witness to their sacrifice and resourcefulness, giving everything she has to help them. Along the way, she's discovered that refugees are not victims--they are survivors and it's her job to help them survive.
How To Bring Joy Into The Resistance - Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker, The Women's March
January 17, 2018 14:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBIf 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 Women’s March artistic director, Paola Mendoza and strategic advisor and national organizer Sarah Sophie Flicker use the power of art and culture in activism, and what they learned in documenting The Women’s March for the newly released book, "Together We Rise." As national organizers for The Women’s March and leaders of The Resistance Revival C...
How To Question The True Value Of A College Degree-Nancy Niemi, Yale University
January 03, 2018 14:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBAs 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 book is called, “Degrees of Difference.” Inflec...
How To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality - Bonny Simi, President of JetBlue Ventures and Olympic Athlete, and...
December 20, 2017 14:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBWhen Bonny Simi was 14 years old, she made a list of life goals--to be a pilot, go to college, be a TV broadcaster, be an Olympic athlete and to build a log cabin. Today, she's achieved 4 of the 5 of them and she founded JetBlue Ventures to massively improve the travel experience. She may be the 'most interesting woman in the world.' And I wanted to know how she did it. Inflection Point is brought to you by FreshBooks—spend less time dealing with invoices and expenses, and more ti...
How To Redesign How Girls Learn STEM - Suz Somersall, KiraKira
December 06, 2017 14:00 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBFrom 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 while living as on a remote Japanese island with her husband fighting halfway across the world, Suz redefi...
How To Reinvent Journalism - Cristi Hegranes, Global Press Institute
November 22, 2017 14:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBCristi Hegranes wanted to be a foreign correspondent since the time she was six years old. Within days of achieving her dream job, after all the traditional training, she realized she was the wrong person for the job. The right person? The women who actually live in the countries usually covered by outsiders. So she decided to train women journalists and give them a platform to tell the stories of their own communities. As she says, "To change the story, you have to change the story...