Inflection Point With Lauren Schiller
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- Duration: 96:03:45
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Synopsis
Hear stories from women who have risen to a challenge, stepped up to create change and are ready to share their experiences. Get tools and ideas for how women rise up that you can apply to your own life. New episodes every other Wednesday. From KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco and PRX.
Episodes
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Jo Boaler, Revolutionizing Math Education at Stanford
11/04/2016 Duration: 37minProfessor Boaler is challenging the notion of "being gifted" at math. Her most recent book is "Mathematical Mindsets," and she recently founded a math resources website, youcubed.org.
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Delaney Ruston, "Screenagers" How Screen Time Affects Teen Brains
25/03/2016 Duration: 29minWhat's all that screen time doing to our childrens' brains? Lauren's guest Delaney Ruston is a primary care physician and filmmaker who explores these questions with her own daughter in the new film "Screenagers."
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Annie Leibovitz - Women:New Portraits
25/03/2016 Duration: 25minIn her world exhibition, "Women:New Portraits" Annie Leibovitz updates the photos from the book she published in 1999 with Susan Sontag, called "Women." The new collection reflects the changes in the roles of women today. Lauren sat down with Annie Leibovitz at the opening of her show in San Francisco.
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Diane Loviglio, Style Delivered to your Door
21/03/2016 Duration: 23minWhy would you open your door to a stranger with an armful of clothing? Diane Loviglio, the co-founder of Boon + Gable, is attempting to address the dressing challenge with a new business she describes as 'Style. Ordered in.'
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Talia Milgrom-Elcott: How to Find 100,000 STEM Teachers
15/03/2016 Duration: 29minThere is a STEM teacher shortage in K-12 education--resulting in an education gap that may leave many students under-prepared for our increasingly tech focused economy. Talia Milgrom-Elcott has taken this challenge to heart--and created a non-profit organization aptly called "100kin10".
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How To Build It Yourself- Maria Klemperer Johnson, Hammerstone Carpentry School for Women
11/03/2016 Duration: 28minIn the trades, most workers--carpentry and otherwise, are still men. Lauren's guest Maria Klemperer-Johnson thinks that this state of affairs can and should change--so she's opened a carpentry school for women called "Hammerstone" in Trumansburg, NY.
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Sara Schaer, founder of Kango transportation & babysitting
07/03/2016 Duration: 24minKango was founded on the premise that it's perfectly logical to outsource your kids' transportation, along with childcare. She shares how they go the extra mile to ensure a safe experience, and why you don't have to be 25 and single to start a business.
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Teresa Younger, President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women
29/02/2016 Duration: 25minMany groups still feel excluded from the feminist movement. Teresa shares how feminism can be a value everyone can share--across races, sexuality, economics.
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Laura Walker: How WNYC is Helping Women Find Their Voice
23/02/2016 Duration: 31minWhat does it mean to be an 'agent of change'? Lauren talks with Laura Walker, the President and CEO of New York Public Radio about their expansion from city-owned WNYC to running multiple stations, a performance space, and her podcast initiative to include 50% female hosts.
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Parisa Rouhani--The "End of Average"
23/02/2016 Duration: 26minParisa Rouhani is the co-founder of the Center for Individual Opportunity and is studying the intersection of neuroscience, technology and design at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Farmgirl Flowers' Christina Stembel is Giving the Flower Industry a Refresh
23/02/2016 Duration: 26minIt turns out that at least 80% of cut flowers sold in the US are shipped from overseas. Christina Stembel, the founder of Farmgirl Flowers thinks the flower industry could use a re-fresh.
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Mary-Louise Parker on her new memoir, "Dear Mr. You."
23/02/2016 Duration: 27minYou might think from your mailbox that letter-writing is on the wane. But a new memoir by Mary-Louise Parker may just revive the art.
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Alison Levine, Polar Explorer
23/02/2016 Duration: 25minMeet Alison Levine, one of the few Americans to complete the Adventure Grand Slam--climbing the 7 highest peaks in the world, and skiing to both the North and South Poles. She's written a book about leadership with lessons learned called "Life on the Edge."
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Gloria Feldt, Founder of Take the Lead Women
23/02/2016 Duration: 27minOn Why Having It All Is Bad for Self-Esteem--and how women can reach leadership parity by 2025.
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Sonja Perkins, Venture Capitalist: The Secret to Getting Funded
23/02/2016 Duration: 33minFounder of Broadway Angels, an *all-women* investing group, and named one of Worth Magazine's 2015 100 most powerful people in global finance--one of fifteen women to make that list this year. She is also the founder of Project Glimmer which provides gifts to underserved women and girls.
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Lina Nilsson, Bio-chemical Engineer
23/02/2016 Duration: 22minLina Nilsson is a bio-chemical engineer, and was the Innovation Director for the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley. She wrote an Op-Ed in the NYTimes called "How to Attract Female Engineers" and in our conversation, she shares some of the letters she received in opposition to this idea.
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Gloria Steinem, "My Life on the Road"
23/02/2016 Duration: 27minOn her new book, the influence of her dad on her life, and the best retort she ever learned. Plus she shares her advice on how to start a movement, and hypothesizes on why it's been so hard for some to picture a woman in the White House.
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Mia Birdsong--Redefining Solutions
23/02/2016 Duration: 26minThe poverty level for American families has hovered at 25% for decades, in spite of billions of dollars spent. Mia Birdsong of Family Story, offers a new perspective--redefine the definition of a 'traditional family.'
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Pam Scott, Philanthropist--Redefining Solutions
22/02/2016 Duration: 25minPam Scott is a philanthropist who brings her corporate experience to sub-Saharan Africa: using human-centered design to reduce unwanted teen pregnancy from 50% to a 'new normal.'
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Abby Falik, Global Citizen Year
22/02/2016 Duration: 25minWhy taking a "bridge year" between high school and college is worth it.