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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 4 hours 13 minutes
episode 20: Thalia González, Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood
"Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood" is a groundbreaking report published by Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, which revealed that adults view Black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers.
episode 21: Bernice Yeung Discusses Her Book "In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence…"
In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung explores sexual harassment, assault and rape for the most vulnerable women in our society.
episode 22: Amanda Litman of Run For Something
Our the two guests for this episode turned their energy following the 2016 election into organizational change.
episode 23: Dr. Wendy Osefo, March For Our Lives, Intersectionality
Dr. Wendy Osefo joins to discuss the success of March For Our Lives and the movement against gun violence driven by the students of Stoneman Douglas High School.
episode 24: Cathy O'Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O'Neil discusses her book "Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality & Threatens Democracy," and the ways in which algorithms dictate nearly every aspect of our lives, including our interactions with the criminal justice system and our elections.
episode 25: The Color of Money with Mehrsa Baradaran
Mehrsa Baradaran discusses the history and origins of today''s racial wealth gap. We discuss the history of segregated industries and black economies that were created in an effort to overcome the financial effects of slavery.
episode 26: Lisa Hunter, Candidate for DC City Council
Lisa Hunter is a candidate for City Council in DC's Ward 6 and if elected, she would be the first Latino elected to the City Council.
episode 27: Andrea Ritchie, Author of "Invisible No More"
"When I come across a story involving police interactions with black women, it's hard to tell whether a story took place in 1863, in 1963 or 2013." This is just one of the points you'll here in this interview with Andrea Ritchie, author of "Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color."
episode 28: Mila Johns - Maryland State Delegate, 18th District
Mila Johns is a candidate for Maryland State Delegate, 18th District. A terrorism analyst and researcher by training, Mila Johns decided to run for Maryland's House of Delegates after turning down a job vetting Syrian refugees for U.S. Customs and Border Protection after Trump when elected.
episode 29: Kelly Dittmar of Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)
Kelly Dittmar is an Assistant Research Professor at the CAWP or the Center for American Women and Politics, a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. We discuss how the political strategy for women politicians is shaped when it's crafted through a gendered lens, including examining Hillary Clinton's 2008 and 2016 strategies as examples.