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Lisa Allanson and Lisa McDonough are the founders of Teen Hackz, a program designed to help teens (girls and boys) understand themselves and others--in order prepare for success in life and work. They've taken the principles of how to help adults work better together at companies, and tailored it for teens.
Lisa McDonough and Lisa Allanson
Fay Zenoff is the Executive Director of the Center for Open Recovery in San Francisco. Her organization is committed to changing the way our culture thinks about recovery--from something secret to something to be celebrated. She shares her story of how this transformational approach to recovery applies to her own life as well. Listen to our conversation above, or on NPR One.
Fay Zenoff
Deb Liu is the VP of Platform and Marketplace at Facebook. She's working to address the challenges that women in tech are facing both on day to day basis, and through a non-profit she co-founded called Women in Product, which brings together women who build. Listen to our conversation here:
Deb also wrote and recorded a special "audio OpEd" for us about sexist language at work. Much of this language is hiding in plain sight. Want to take her challenge? Track how many of the words below you use or hear in a given day. Listen to her OpEd here:
Compiled by Deb Liu
Two-man rule
Man-on-man defense
Gentlemen's agreement
Old Boys Club
Man up
Ballsy
Two guys in a garage (starting a startup)
Right-hand man
That's his boy
Poster boy
Man bites dog
Manpower
Wingman
White man's burden
Strawman
Key man risk
Everyman
Middleman
Great man myth
Grow a pair
Big boy pants
Cowboy
Guys
Dude
Man hours
Man sprints
Quarterback
Manning a booth
Everyone and their brother
Deb Liu
What happens when sexist language doesn't quite hit its mark? From B stories podcast comes "A Big Misunderstanding" by producer Megan Jones and field producer, Suzanne Ahearne.
B stories offers "unserious, non-political, lighthearted stories about boobies told by women and men. Illustrations courtesy of each storyteller." Check them out here.
Illustration courtesy of the storyteller
Producer Ahri Golden brings us voices from the January 21st Women's March in Oakland, CA. Ahri is also photo-documenting the resistance and response to the current Administration. Listen here, on iTunes, or on NPR One.
Photo by: Ahri Golden
Dr. Shruti Naik is a scientist whose work led to the FDA ban on antibacterial soap in the US. She is now a postdoctoral scientist in immunology and stem cell biology at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Naik’s research focuses on understanding the role adult stem cells play in inflammation and how they can be used to treat inflammatory disorders of the skin, like psoriasis.
At The Rockefeller University, Dr. Naik has grown the Women in Science at Rockefeller (WISeR) program from six to over 250 members and has established a weekly breakfast series for trainees to network with prominent female scientists.
Dr. Naik is also one of L'Oréal USA 2016's winners of the "For Women In Science Award" for her research.
Listen to our conversation at the link above, or at NPR One.
Jess McIntosh headed up influencer outreach for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Now, she's leading an initiative to amplify women's rights' activism. Starting with the Women's March, she and her co-founder Zerlina Maxwell are boosting the growth for the many movements being catalyzed around the march. It's called "Signal Boost."
Jess McIntosh
The National Resources Defense Council has signed on as a partner to the Women's March on Washington. The president of the NRDC, Rhea Suh talks with Lauren about about why the Women's March matters for the environment and what's at stake with the new administration.
Rhea Suh
Photo Credit: Zoe Fisher/NRDC
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Ruth's new book is "America The Anxious. How the pursuit of happiness is making us a nation of nervous wrecks." How's all the meditation and yoga working for you? Ruth and Lauren spoke live on stage at the 2016 Berkeley Festival of Ideas. Listen in on iTunes or NPR One.
UPDATE: Ruth joined me again in 2018 to talk about “empowerment feminism”. Listen here.
RUTH WHIPPMAN
