OK y’all. It’s time to get intimate. Let’s talk about undies.
I’m one of those people who likes to know where the things I own come from. “Who made t...
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We caught up with Julie Markham, founder of a new app called Pingwhen, to talk about traveling as a woman, the importance of manifesting your dreams, and calling up Nobel Laureates on Skype out of the blue.
Jillian is lead singer of the wife-husband duo band The Bergamot.
She’s also a foodie, spiritualist, and maker of organic body care products that blogs on Sh...
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WISER runs a school in a remote area of Kenya called Muhuru Bay. It started when one of the co-founders was doing research in the area, and she got a note under her door from a 14 year-old girl that said, “Should I stop having sex with the man who is paying my school fees? I’m afraid of getting AIDS.”
Muhuru Bay is very remote. It is a fishing village, and there is a huge cycle of transactional sex, which has resulted in one of the highest rates of HIV in the country and really anywhere in Africa. We estimate that there is 38% HIV prevalence in Muhuru.
I’d love to hear about your journey, and how that journey led to you starting Soko.
My first introduction to Nairobi was when I was studying for my Master’...
I caught up with Joy Anderson, the powerhouse of a woman behind Criterion Institute, a think tank focused on reinventing the economy. A serial entrepreneur and consummate networker, Joy’s leadership and expertise have been at the forefront of the development of the social capital markets over the last 10 years.
It was a pleasure to hear her reflections on power, grace, gender, and other forces shifting our markets and society.
You’ve lived and travelled all over the world. Tell me about some of the places you’ve spent time in and how they relate to your work.
The first place I we...
So you grew up in both Mexico City and New York. I’d love to hear about how those two cities influenced your worldview.
Absolutely. Going back a little bit, ...
I got involved in this web of awesome, really creative, kickass women who were just doing shit. You know? They were just doing their own thing and thinking outside the box and really forward thinking in terms of gender and feminism, and queer, DIY, creative spaces. So that's how I got hooked in.
Alanna Ford was born on a blueberry farm in the Middle of Nowhere, USA. Since then, she’s enjoyed exploring connections between feminism, art, social justice, and international development. She’s lived in 4 countries in the past 3 years, and is ready to keep on exploring.
