Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined
291 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsTune into our engaging conversations with women in their 70s, 80s and 90s whose stories about living meaningful and productive lives will inspire, educate and motivate our listeners. Through these stories, older and younger women alike can anticipate exciting years ahead.
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285 Helen Benjamin: Education Changes the Life Trajectory of Every Person
June 26, 2024 01:41 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MBAs an educational leader and mentor, Dr. Helen Benjamin tells stories about growing up in the segregated South, living and working in two worlds—Black and White, and helping younger Black professionals navigate their CEO roles in community colleges. In semi-retirement, Helen leads HSV Consulting, Inc, works with “dozens of colleges, boards, and CEOs to advance student- centered organizational and leadership improvement,” and continues writing to preserve African American history. Helen...
284 Annamarie Pluhar: Shared Housing: No One Should be Isolated
June 18, 2024 12:09 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDo you want to share housing but find the transition scary? We often live in shared housing when we are single: college, roommates in camp, at conferences, during our early careers. Living with housemates as we age is no different. Annamarie Pluhar, 70, is a well-spoken advocate for shared housing and offers valuable ways of thinking to simplify the process. After receiving her Masters in Divinity, then working in a corporation, facilitating large groups, Annamarie started a non-profit to ...
283 Mary Mitchell: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
June 12, 2024 02:03 - 29 minutes - 40 MBMary Mitchell, age 74, sheds light on aging and ageism in her occasional column for the Chicago Sun Times, Starting Over. Mary ‘started over’ five years ago when she switched her journalistic authority on race relations in Chicago to concentrate on matters of growing older. She advocates that longevity is a blessing and aging offers an opportunity to do well at something else. Mary’s guiding tenets are always equity and fairness when dealing with social isms. When we are equitable and fair,...
282 Ann Anderson Evans: A Wife’s Unanswered Questions About Transgender and Suicide
June 05, 2024 00:49 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBAnn Anderson Evans, age 82, lives in Vermont. She is a writer, linguist, and former professor. Her first memoir, Daring to Date Again (2014), which tells the story of what happened after she started dating at 62, won multiple prizes. Her sequel The Sweet Pain of Being Alive: A Memoir of Love and Death (Jan. 2024), narrates her attempt to find out why, after 13 happily married years, her husband killed himself. Her questions about his gender dsyphoria and suicide remain largely unanswered. An...
281 Susan Gangsei: Tapestries Reveal the Passages of Women Aging
May 29, 2024 00:42 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBSusan Gangsei, a classically trained tapestry artist from Minneapolis, MN, uses her talent to create images of women aging. Her recent series, The Sacred Journey of Aging, features the “beauty, strength, and wisdom of older women.” Susan treats viewers to her tapestries that represent different passages of growing older—feeling invisible, making mischief, putting the pieces back together, reimagining how to live with a health condition, and recognizing the paradoxes of life. Susan will exhib...
280 Jacynth Bassett: Ageism is Never in Style - 31 year old Activist
May 22, 2024 01:25 - 32 minutes - 45 MBVisionary and disrupter, Jacynth Bassett, is an award-winning, highly sought after consultant and expert in the anti-ageism/ age-inclusive & positive movement. At only 31, she is widely recognized as a leading pioneer and voice, awarded ‘Anti-Ageist Activist’ of 2023, at the inaugural Advantages Of Age Awards 2023. and named one of Evening Standard’s 22 Londoners Changing the World. She is the Founder & CEO of the award-winning global campaign, consultancy & community Ageism Is Never In Sty...
279 Michele Kurlander: Obsessions for Art & Music Icons Fuel Her Life
May 15, 2024 01:14 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBLIfe is a constant adventure for Michele Kurlander, 79. She lives in Chicago, yet her heart is in France. A fluent francophile, Michelle spends much of her life traveling between Chicago and Paris. There she has met dear friends who live all across the world. When she becomes interested in an artist, an author, a performer, Michele’s obsession with art and music icons takes over and she devotes that period of her life to understanding all she can about the person. Spending years reading and ...
278 Pamela Meyer: Staying Innovative in the Game of Life
May 08, 2024 00:24 - 33 minutes - 45.3 MBDr. Pamela Meyer is a prolific author, international consultant and keynote speaker, and college teacher whose areas of focus are leadership agility, organizational change, and adult learning. In her most recent book, Staying in the Game: Leading and Learning with Agility for a Dynamic Future, Pamela draws on her experiences as an amateur, gold medalist ski racer and on extensive interviews with older ski racers who keep coming back. Staying in the game is an apt metaphor for women who stri...
277 Shelia Solomon: Helping Your Neighbor Understand About Your Neighbor: The Role of Civic Journalism
May 01, 2024 01:04 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBSheila Solomon’s career in mass media arts spans 50 years. She was among the first African American women to work in the newsrooms of regional and national newspapers. Sheila became a dedicated advocate for affirmative action—bringing people of color into the news business and reporting on race issues in professions outside of journalism. While working as a journalist, Sheila was diagnosed with a very rare, incurable illness that is still being managed. She was allowed to work from home for ...
276 David Stewart: A Leading Authority on the Mindset and Aspirations that Drive the Over 50 Demographic.
April 23, 2024 02:42 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBAs the founder of AGEIST Magazine and Super Ager podcast, David Stewart is a passionate champion of the modern 50+ lifestyle. While interviewing David is a departure from interviewing women 70-110+, we feel that what he has to say contributes to our mission of aging reimagined. Women are the ones who are changing things. Men never experienced ageism, while women experienced sexism throughout their careers and understood ageism as a form of discrimination. Super Ager podcast focuses on how ...
275 Sandy Gordon: A True Advocate Lives for the Causes She Believes In
April 17, 2024 01:18 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBWhen Sandy Gordon retired at 70, from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Rosemont, Illinois as Director of Public Relations, a colleague gave her a toast. It said in part: “Sandy has the kind of talent that startles people. Really. Her co-workers and colleagues often sit around wondering how she comes up with her ideas. Ideas that seem to just sort of float out of her brain. It’s as though Sandy can produce life from a primordial soup that for everyone else is just a bowl full...
274:Coleen T. Murphy, Ph.D: Cognitive Aging: The Science of Longevity
April 10, 2024 03:39 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBColeen T. Murphy, Ph.D is Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, James A. Elkins, Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, and LSI Genomics, Princeton University. She is also Director, Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research at Princeton and Director of Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain. As a researcher, Coleen studies aging and the quantitation of “quality of life with age,” including the decline of cognitive and repr...
273 Dr. Tracey Gendron: Ageism Unmasked: Exploring Bias and How to End It
April 03, 2024 00:20 - 26 minutes - 36.1 MBDr. Tracey Gendron is an internationally recognized gerontologist with almost 30 years of experience as a grant-funded researcher. She speaks to audiences globally about the real world impact of age bias. She is determined to change people’s negative views about aging. “Ageism, she says, is complicated - more nuanced than most people think it is. Anytime we discriminate against a person based on age, it is ageism. And, since we are all aging all the time, it can be a younger or older person ...
272 Carol Stitzer: Art is the Tapestry of Her Life - Zippers and Bees Abound
March 27, 2024 02:19 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBCarol Stitzer, 80, lives life in the moment. All you have to do is listen to her and you immediately understand that she is positive, talented, energetic and happy. From early childhood education to development professional, fundraiser, artist and volunteer, Carol never lacks for the next big thing. She fine-tuned her skills at the Center for American Archeology and learned early on that planning travel for the Board of Directors offered her unique opportunities to tag along. This applied to...
271 Nancy Hanson: Following in My Mother’s Footsteps: Fighting for Systemic Change
March 20, 2024 01:01 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MBA life of social service requires a deep commitment to reaching out, helping out and finding those paths that have meaning to you. Throughout Nancy Hanson’s entire life, she has been doing just that. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Nancy knows no other way of being. Early on, she joined the League of Women Voters and in each of the cities in which she lived, when she and her husband moved multiple times, Nancy found causes she could learn about, study and advocate for through the...
270 Kate Saccany: Battling Long Covid while Running Marathons
March 13, 2024 02:52 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBCatherine (Kate) Saccany was born to run. She took up jogging and ran barefoot for her first 30 months because there were no running shoes for women. A career banker, Kate joined LaSalle Bank. Coincidentally, LaSalle sponsored the Chicago marathon. She bought her first pair of running shoes, qualified for the marathon and has not stopped since. Yes, long covid has cramped her style. And, she is now 72. Kate believes it's never too late to become a runner. With the proper coaching and the rig...
269 Eme McAnam: Senior Romance - People Live Who They Are Until Their Last Breath
March 06, 2024 02:34 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBJoy, love, compassion - the foundation of Eme’s life and her stories. Eme McAnam was a singer-songwriter who charted in the top 100 in Country Music. Her career has taken many turns: Singer/songwriter, novelist, art photographer. Her newest novel, Freefalling: A Novel of Senior Romance, is based on a topic she knows well from her 91/2 years serving at an assisted living facility. Lewy Body Dementia is the central theme. Seniors, she says, are “us”. She wants her legacy to be seen as unders...
268 Gretchen Wilbur: Living with the Maroons: Learning ‘Who I Am, Who I Have Been, and Who I Be Now’
February 28, 2024 01:15 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBEducational equity, intercultural communication, and teacher education are the threads of Dr. Gretchen Wilbur’s 30+-year career as an educational leader. Upon retiring from DePaul University in 2019, Gretchen traded an urban lifestyle in Chicago for the rural mountains in Jamaica where she lives with the Maroon people. As the only resident who is White, female, and highly educated, Gretchen is adapting to living in a culture that tests many of her western world views, including identity, com...
267 Carol Marin: Helping the World Know Someone Else’s Truths
February 21, 2024 02:23 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MB[spp-player] Carol Marin, age 75, is an award-winning television and print journalist renowned for her nearly 50 years of investigative stories on politics, public corruption, and organized crime. In 2016, Carol co-founded and directs DePaul University’s Center for Journalism Integrity and Excellence where she teaches a two-quarter long course in Advanced Reporting for graduate students “ready to jump into the profession.” Ethical problem-solving is a cornerstone of the Center, guided by ke...
266 Joan Price: Talking Out Loud About Ageless Sexuality
February 14, 2024 02:49 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBSex educator, Joan Price, is the voice for ‘ageless sexuality.’ In her books, webinars, presentations, newsletter, and blog, Joan talks frankly about spicy and satisfying sex for seniors, whether partnered or solo. She is the first to address sex and grief in her recent book, Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved. Joan advises that sexuality is always a journey, regardless of age and circumstance. She encourages older adults to see themselves as sexual beings a...
265: Elizabeth “Betty” Werrenrath: A Life-long Progressive, still Advocating for Change at 110
February 07, 2024 02:28 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBWe love all our interviews. However, meeting Betty Werrenrath in person, and interviewing her in her apartment at the Presbyterian Homes in Evanston, IL was a unique experience that we would not have traded. Betty is inspiring, positive, upbeat and interesting. She was born January 28, 1914 in Harrisburg, PA. The daughter of a progressive preacher’s kid, she says, “I had to act decently because he was so well-known”. "“Be more interested in others than you are in yourself. Listen.” - Betty ...
264 Patti Temple Rocks: Ageism in the Workplace
January 31, 2024 03:11 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBPatti Temple Rocks has had a long, successful, and immensely rewarding career in marketing and communications and still she is not done. Her work and her articles and books have been written about in major publications such as Fast Company, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal. Inc. Patti started her career at Dow Chemical in 1981. It was not until many years later that she became obsessed with making sure that age inclusivity is on every company’s D,E&I agenda and that everyone gets to end thei...
263 Susan Mazer: Creator of an 1,100 Hospital Patient Relaxation Channel and Full-time Jazz Harpist
January 24, 2024 02:18 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBDr. Susan Mazer is a full-time performing jazz harpist and former President, Co-founder, and CEO of Healing HealthCare Systems, producers of The C.A.R.E. Channel, the only evidence-based, 24-hour relaxation channel for patient television. Now in its 30th year, C.A.R.E. is being broadcasted in over 1,100 hospitals nationally and internationally including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Australia, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, and many other locations. The discipline of health care led her to stu...
262 Judy Reeves: Traveling Solo to Find My Way
January 17, 2024 03:01 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBWhen nearing 50 years of age and recently widowed, Judy sold everything, bought an around-the-world airline ticket, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a planned itinerary. “The outer journey serves as a container” for Judy’s inner “struggle to find her way as a sober, single, independent woman.” A master teacher and published author of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, Judy’s journey led to her first published memoir, When Your Heart Says Go: My Year of Traveling Beyond Lo...
261: Helen Hirsh Spence: Valuing the Expertise and Ingenuity of Older Adults
January 10, 2024 02:12 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThrough Top Sixty Over Sixty, Helen writes articles and speaks at conferences to encourage a reframed narrative of aging, one that reflects the age realities of the 21st century. She emphasizes the need for a longevity focus, encourages an entrepreneurial mindset, and cautions against internalized ageism which undermines the potential of older adults. Top Sixty Over Sixty also provides programs and courses for older adults as well as businesses and companies to help everyone benefit from our...
260 Janis Clark Johnston: Aging - So Cool Everyone is Doing It
January 03, 2024 02:15 - 37 minutes - 52 MBJanis Clark Johnston is a family psychologist, speaker, and author of several books, most recently Transforming Retirement: Rewire and Grow Your Legacy. When she experienced 9/11, Janis says, she became more sensitive to other’s pain and loss. Planning rituals to honor the person you lost helps you to grow during the grieving process. Keeping a gratitude journal, for example, is a process that is creative by nature and becomes a daily ritual. Janis believes that recognizing the differenc...
259 Emily and Mitchell Clionsky: Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain
December 27, 2023 04:45 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBEmily Clionsky, MD, and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, are a physician and neuropsychologist couple who have cared for their own parents with dementia, created a test used by doctors to measure cognitive function, and treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment. They partner at a private practice, Clionsky Neuro Systems, Inc., based in Springfield, Massachusetts. They are frequent public speakers, podcast guests, and workshop presenters for general and professional audiences. In...
258 Diane Slezak: Expanding Options, Resources, and Services for Older Adults
December 20, 2023 02:10 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBDiane Slezak is CEO of Age Options, a nonprofit advocacy organization she has been involved with since 1976. Age Options caters to older adults and those who care for them with resources and service options so older adults can live their lives to the fullest. The explosive demographic of baby- boomers has sparked pressing issues, including home-delivered meals, awareness of scams, suitable housing, and assistance for caregivers. In addition to her executive duties, Diane advocates for ...
257 Darcy Evon: Building a More Age-Inclusive Society
December 13, 2023 02:14 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBSince becoming CEO of The Village Chicago in 2019, Darcy has overseen the growth and vitality of The Village—including over 500 comprehensive programs that focus on social, emotional, and physical well-being. She promotes improved quality of life for older adults and intergenerational collaboration at work, at home, and in the community. Darcy and colleagues delve into the root causes of ageism and age bias, including internal and external ageism. She advocates that age must be includ...
256 Susan Cartland-Bode: Born to Share the Gift of Music
December 06, 2023 02:15 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBFor much of her life, Susan Cartland-Bode has shared her gift of music-- as a soloist and choral singer, voice teacher, player of piano and violin and, most recently, fiddle. A resident of Plymouth Place in LaGrange Park, IL, Susan performs solos, sings with the Plymouth Place Singers, and directs the Singing Sages, a group that offers sing-along programs for residents in the upper levels of care. The joy of music has sustained Susan through challenging times in her life; she is writi...
255 Rhea Zakich: The Art of Touching the Human Heart
November 29, 2023 00:48 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBRhea Zakich, age 88, touches human hearts as an author, speaker, workshop and seminar leader, and creator of the world’s popular communication game the UNGAME (1973)—5 million sold and still selling. Her dramatic story of the UNGAME has been told on TV and radio programs as well as in major newspapers and publications such as Readers Digest, Redbook, and Psychology for Living. Rhea resides in a Christian Senior Community in Santa Ana, CA where she teaches Bible study, serves as editor ...
254 Catherine Hiller: Award-winning Novelist Tackles Taboo Topics
November 22, 2023 03:55 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBCatherine Hiller is inspired to write against the grain. In her current novel, Cybil Unbound, (her 10th book and 6th novel), she delicately characterizes an older woman and her new-found sexuality. Catherine believes the capacity to fall in love can strike at any age. "It is a rare depiction about sexual adventure in a woman's later years. Cybill is 42 when the book begins, 72 when it ends." An award-winning writer, Catherine’s pioneering work has been challenging social mores for decades....
253 Taru Fisher: Helping Women Transform Aging
November 15, 2023 04:21 - 32 minutes - 5 MBTaru Fisher coaches women to make aging fearless, fulfilling, and fun. She encourages women to fully respect their own aging process and be vibrantly visible. Taru is a certified NLP Health Practitioner and NLP Coach specializing in aging. She also is a Healer Certified Medical Cannabis Wellness Advisor and a provider of Health and Wellness Coaching and Medical Cannabis Education. Taru’s coaching practice is called Seasons of Life Coaching. She writes a blog and newsletter, teaches workshops...
252 Julie Iverson: Death Doula—An End-of-Life Ally
November 08, 2023 03:33 - 39 minutes - 5 MB VideoIn her role as a certified Death Doula (also known as an End-of-Life Doula or Death Midwife), Julie Iverson is passionate about providing non-medical, non-judgmental, holistic care and support to individuals and their loved ones as they navigate the challenges and transitions of aging and dying. She educates them about options available before, during, and after death. Drawing on her expertise as a certified Geriatric Care Manager, Julie’s specialty is being an advocate for families an...
251 Sara Gilfert: Hand Paper-Making Artist Makes Waves in Her Community
November 01, 2023 01:41 - 34 minutes - 5 MBSara Gilfert, 94, lives in Ohio. She comes from a family that was populated with teachers and preachers. While she began her college education in journalism, a chance workshop on fiber art caused her to change her major and she became a fiber artist and teacher. Since 2003, she has owned her own hand-paper-making studio, exclusively harvesting the white fiber from the inner bark of the mulberry tree to create art. Loss of vision and hearing has affected Sara’s ability to continue with her ...
250 Ashton Applewhite: Ageism Harms Us and Obstructs Equity
October 25, 2023 00:42 - 32 minutes - 5 MBAshton Applewhite has been speaking out about aging and ageism for over 15 years. Her 2016 book, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, radicalized the present anti-ageism movement. Since then, Ashton has continued her blog, Yo, is This Ageist?, co-founded the Old School Anti-Ageism Clearinghouse, and is in high demand to speak at various venues from Ted Talks, to universities, to community centers, to the Library of Congress and the United Nations. Her numerous honors and recognition...
249 Connie Zweig: Bringing Your Inner Ageist into the Light of Awareness
October 18, 2023 01:04 - 33 minutes - 5 MBConnie Zweig, PhD, is a retired Jungian-oriented therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2022 Gold COVR Award, the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, the 2021 American Book Fest Award, and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Her new book is Meeting the...
248 Beth Truett: An Ambassador for Positive Aging
October 11, 2023 01:26 - 31 minutes - 5 MBBeth Truett, MDiv, BS, believes in serving. It comes naturally to her and has guided her career path over the years. Her earliest memories are of lunches with the Ladies’ Aid Society. After a lengthy corporate career where she was committed to mentoring women, she worked at Chicago Lights, then Oral Health America. Both organizations needed to reignite or start a program for older adults, and she concentrated her efforts there. Oral health is crucial to total health, influencing both diabe...
247 Diane Valletta: Everything Begins As A Thought
October 04, 2023 00:45 - 22 minutes - 5 MBDiane Valletta has moved from passion to passion throughout her life. Her mother, who died at 93, was her role model. She had a passion for activism and service. The same is true for Diane, whose desire for service has spanned her entire life. From Women Employed to NAWBO (National Association for Women Business Owners), Diane has served on numerous boards. “I’ve been invited to sit on the boards of the organizations I get involved with because they feed my desire for service. And, since my ...
246 Aggie Jordan: A Journey from Nun to Feminist
September 27, 2023 01:34 - 27 minutes - 5 MBA former nun, teacher, relationship author of The Marriage Plan: How To Marry Your Soul Mate In One Year Or Less, owner of Jordan De-Laurenti, Inc., a training and contract management company and a small business columnist for the Dallas Times-Herald, Aggie has published numerous articles, blogs, and is author of A Woman’s Voice Should Be Heard: My Journey from the Convent to the Battle for Equality. Aggie’s life changed when, in 1967, she was offered a fellowship to the University of No...
245 Mary Ann Cooper: Saving Lives through Lightning Injury Prevention & Safety
September 20, 2023 01:27 - 27 minutes - 5 MBWhen lightning strikes, where do you go to avoid injury? If you live in the United States, you likely have easy access to a safe building or car. In fact, fewer than 20 people die annually from being struck by lightning. But for people who live in the developing world, the risks of injury or death are magnified because they do not have access to safe locations. Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, age 74, an early pioneer in emergency medicine, is dedicated to saving lives through public education and buil...
244 Sheree Clark: Navigating the Continuum of Midlife with Courage
September 13, 2023 01:32 - 30 minutes - 5 MBSheree Clark is a Midlife Courage Coach whose varied forks-in-the-road include: university administrator in student personnel; owner of an advertising agency; TV show host; author; health coach; raw vegan chef and more. Through her Talk Series for Midlife Women, weekly blogs, private Facebook group for Midlife Courage Warriors, Midlife Summer School—along with individual and group coaching—Sheree encourages women to release regrets, set boundaries, be visible, act courageously, and cre...
243 E. Beverly Young: Speak My Name in the Room
September 06, 2023 01:51 - 29 minutes - 5 MBE. Beverly Young speaks her truths about gender and race prejudices in the workplace and larger society. She entered professional policing 50 years ago, one of few women in a male-dominated field. During her 26 years in uniform, Beverly achieved the rank of Lieutenant and become a certified police instructor for police training academies throughout the state of Pennsylvania. Beverly earned her doctorate at age 60, supplementing field experience with academic inquiry. In 2014 she formed her...
242 KC Henry: Family Ties and Personal Freedom
August 30, 2023 11:32 - 28 minutes - 5 MBKC Henry’s roots are in eleven generations of Ohioans including her five siblings, four adult children and spouses, and 10 grandchildren. “Forgiveness and enjoyment of each other is what makes a family this size work.” KC creates room for consulting with non-profit organizations--drawing on her extensive experience in equine therapy--as well as for a relatively new venture as a potter. Divorced after 28 years of marriage, KC loves the freedom of single life to choose how she wants to live. T...
241 Berry Dilley: Who Will Be My 24/7? A Concern that Grows with Age
August 23, 2023 00:51 - 31 minutes - 5 MBBerry Dilley’s areas of interest cover movement, dance and mindfulness, teaching, creativity, as well as health, disability services, and quality of life for elders. She has degrees in dance, sociology and counseling and more recently trained in Somatic Experiencing to help people who have experienced trauma. Berry grew up on the east coast and moved, with her son, Steve, to Athens, Ohio, in 1971, to teach in the theater department at Ohio University. She remarried and made Athens her ...
240 Ingrid Roze: Public Service: A Tapestry Woven Throughout Her Life
August 17, 2023 00:19 - 34 minutes - 5 MBQuote: Art has always been my friend. Today I participate in ‘Yarn Bombing’ projects. Ingrid Roze is a multi-faceted woman with many interests. Her parents came from Bulgaria and Latvia. Each found their way to Venezuela in 1948 where they met and married. It was there that Ingrid was born and remained until she was 12 when the family moved to the United States. She became a child psychologist. and primarily worked with Spanish- speaking communities and Arabic and Moorish cultures. Instead...
239 Connie Goddard: Writer and Independent Scholar: Intertwining Labor, Learning, and History
August 09, 2023 03:15 - 31 minutes - 5 MBConnie Goddard has reimagined who she is for her entire life. One thing remains constant: her love for writing and for history. Connie lived in Chicago for most of her life; she writes about the city's history, that of the Dakotas where her family is from, and New Jersey, where she now lives. Industrial education programs in all three places are the subject for her current major project: a book called Learning for Work, which will be published next summer by a major academic press. A few ye...
238 Terri Banner Fitzsimmons: Rising from the Ashes: A Powerful Testimony to Life
August 02, 2023 00:43 - 28 minutes - 5 MBTerri Banner Fitzsimmons hails from British Columbia. She has been in the field of education most of her adult life, as a teacher of all grades, Sociology Professor for twenty years, director of an Independent Study Program, helping adults earn their diploma. Author of 5 books, she won many awards, including being recognized for initiating a girl power group, developing innovative career strategies, and her work for United Way, helping parolees find employment. She has worked with vari...
237 Dian Greenwood: Helping Women Discover Their Agency
July 26, 2023 00:30 - 33 minutes - 5 MBAs a therapist and writer, I support women who struggle with real problems to bolster their agency. - Dian Greenwood Growing up in the basement of the courthouse adjoined to the jail in South Dakota, Dian developed an affinity for people who struggle against the odds. As a therapist, Dian has specialized in alcohol abuse and, currently, focuses on difficulties faced by women over 60. These experiences, among many, are gist for Dian’s successes as a writer who knows how to “take risks with ...
236 Cheryl Keen: Scholarly Activist Follows Her Callings
July 19, 2023 00:48 - 31 minutes - 5 MBCheryl Keen, EdD—scholar, activist, Quaker—has always tried to follow her callings which personify commitment, connection, and community. As a pioneer in significant movements--peace education and justice, service-learning, and progressive higher education--Cheryl job-shared seven leadership positions with her husband, Jim. They are parents/grandparents to one biological family as well as three ‘made families.’ They have always lived communally because “ethically, I need to share the space t...