Actress and comedian Katie Goodman has a message for you, dammit. Hear it on iTunes or NPR One.
KATIE GOODMAN
Jess McIntosh, Hillary for America
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Jess worked to get pro-choice female Democrats elected while at on the team at Emily's List. She was the spokesperson for Al Franken's senatorial campaign, and now, as the Director of Communications for Hillary for America, she's on the front lines working to get Hillary Clinton elected as the first female president of the United States.
JESS MCINTOSH
Anna Lappé, "Food Fighter" and James Beard Leadership Award Recipient
James Beard Leadership Award winner Anna Lappé has spent most of her career as a sustainable food advocate. It all started when Anna Lappé's mom, Frances Moore Lappé (author of "Diet for a Small Planet" and many more) invited Anna to research and then co-author a book with her. That book became "Hope's Edge," and they traveled the world looking at solutions for sustainable food production as an antidote to our food industrial complex. That was 2002. Anna was hooked and has made pushing for a healthier food system her life's work too and she's just been recognized with a James Beard Leadership award. We talk big food and marketing to kids--and the implications for the health of our planet and people.Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
ANNA LAPPE
Kate Schatz, author of "Rad Women Worldwide"
Meet the author of "Rad Women Worldwide," Kate Schatz. She tells us why she is vocal about being a feminist, and we discuss how her books are changing perceptions about who gets to go down in history as extraordinary. Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
KATE SCHATZ
Joan Blades & John Gable, Bringing Civil Conversations to Schools
Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising.org and Living Room Conversations.org, to provide a guide for meaningful conversations between people with different views. Now, she has teamed up with Republican John Gable on an initiative called AllSides for Schools to bring civilized conversations about controversial topics to the classroom. We talk about why students need these tools now and what these conversations were like in high school for Joan and John.
JOAN BLADES
JOHN GABLE
Vivien Labaton, Ending the "Lady Tax"
We've heard a lot about making things easier for families this election season, but the cost of childcare is still higher than college tuition in some states. Vivien Labaton has founded an advocacy organization called Make it Work to influence policies in support of paid family leave, equal pay and affordable childcare. She shares her personal story of growing up with a single dad, and what she experienced when her own child was born.
VIVIEN LABATON
Barbara Ortiz Howard, Women On 20s
BARBARA ORTIZ HOWARD
Do you remember the $1 coins featuring Susan B. Anthony? That coin is now out of print-- and we've never had a woman on our paper currency. Barbara Ortiz Howard has taken issue with this and formed an organization called Women on 20s to advocate for a woman on our $20 bill. They petitioned President Obama and met with Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew and Treasurer Rosie Rios to ensure that their voices were heard--and that "a woman's place is on the money." She shares what happened next in this conversation.
For the latest on who's on the money, visit the Department of the Treasury's site.
Ilyse Hogue, The Fight For Reproductive Rights
It's been 43 years since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v Wade decision gave women the legal right to end a pregnancy as a matter of privacy. And yet since the case was released in 1973, it has remained one of the most polarizing, politicized and continually challenged issues in America. My guest Ilyse Hogue is the President of NARAL Pro Choice America, formed in 1969 as an advocacy group to expand--and now protect-- reproductive freedom. Listen to our conversation on iTunes or NPR One.
ILYSE HOGUE
Shannon Cohn, The Cost of Endometriosis
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Coined the "crazy woman's disease" by some of those who have had it--or the "career woman's disease" by those who have attempted to diagnose it--it's been outed by celebrities like Padma Lakshmi, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, and Lena Dunham who have all experienced the effects of it. And if you have a daughter or a niece, the odds are that you know someone with it. Yet it typically takes 8 doctors and 10 years to be properly diagnosed, resulting in years of pain, depression and loss of productivity, often starting in the teen years. Filmmaker Shannon Cohn says after breast cancer, it's "the last great health taboo" and has made a film called "Endo-What?" to change the narrative around Endometriosis and help women and healthcare practitioners understand and treat the disease.
SHANNON COHN
Teresa Younger, President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women
It's been over 40 years since the Ms. Foundation for women was formed to help women and girls. Yet many groups still feel excluded from the feminist movement. Teresa shares how feminism can be a value everyone can share--across races, sexuality, and economics.
Read Lauren's edited and condensed Q&A with Teresa in the Ms. Blog.
TERESA YOUNGER