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Eco-Warriors: Mary Amdur
Season 3 Episode 165
Mary Amdur (1921-1998) was a researcher who shaped our understanding of the negative effects of air pollution. Her work laid the groundwork for clean…
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Season 3 Episode 164
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) was a gifted writer and conservationist who is known as “the woman who saved the Everglades."
History classes ca…
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: Fatima Jibrell
Season 3 Episode 163
Fatima Jibrell (1947-present) is a prominent Somali environmental activist. In the wake of her country’s devastating civil war, she founded a non-pro…
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: Dorothy Stang
Season 3 Episode 162
Dorothy Stang (1931-2005) dedicated her life to protecting the environment and fighting for the poor. She knew these struggles were interlinked, and …
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: Hazel M. Johnson
Season 3 Episode 161
Hazel M. Johnson (1935-2011) is known as the Mother of Environmental Justice. Her work focused on bettering the lives of her family and her neighbors…
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: Ellen Swallow Richards
Season 3 Episode 160
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) was the first woman to be admitted to MIT. She founded the home economics movement and ignited the study of ecolog…
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: Grace Thorpe
Season 3 Episode 159
Grace Thorpe (1921-2008) was a pioneering advocate for environmental and Native rights.
History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reas…
4 years ago
BONUS: As She Rises Season 2
Season 3
If you're loving this month's Womanica theme, wait til you listen to As She Rises! As She Rises is back for a second season to celebrate both Earth a…
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: Octavia Hill
Season 3 Episode 158
Octavia Hill (1838-1912) led of the British open space movement. Inspired by Christian socialism, she channeled her belief system into the creation o…
4 years ago
Eco-Warriors: LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
Season 3 Episode 157
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard (1956-2021) helped kickstart one of the largest indigenous movements in the last century: the #NoDAPL movement, or the Dako…
4 years ago