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Alfonsina Strada Read by Elena Favilli

Season 6 Episode 61

Alfonsina Strada discovered cycling in the early 1900s when Italian women were supposed to be focused on home and family. She ignored the gossip and …

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Get To Know Merritt Moore

Get to know physicist and ballet dancer Dr. Merritt Moore, who brought us the story of roboticist Yoky Matsuoka. Merritt tells us about creating her …

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Yoky Matsuoka Read By Merritt Moore

When Yoky Matsuoka was growing up in Tokyo, Japan, in the 1980s, she dreamed of becoming a world-famous tennis player. But when repeated injuries das…

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SLEEPY BONUS! Kotchakorn Voraakhom: Ebb and Flow

Kotchakorn Voraakhom makes sure nature comes first. As a Thai landscape architect, she works with new realities like flooding and rising waters, usin…

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Lucy Kirk: Mission Possible

Lucy Kirk always dreamed of traveling the world. When she got hired as a CIA agent, she thought she had finally found a path to explore. But then eac…

2 years ago

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Get To Know Zainab Salbi

Get to know Zainab Salbi, founder of Women for Women International, who narrated the story of Malala Yousafzai. In this interview, Salbi tells us how…

2 years ago

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Malala Yousafzai Read By Zainab Salbi

Education and peace activist Malala Yousafzai became a household name because of her vocal activism around the education of girls in her hometown in …

2 years ago

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Get To Know D’atra “Dee Dee” Jackson

Get to know organizer, trainer, big sister, godmother of four, and National Director of BYP100, D’atra “Dee Dee” Jackson. D’atra tells us how her gra…

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Sojourner Truth Read By D'Atra "Dee Dee" Jackson

Once there was a girl whose powerful voice would inspire people to fight for equality. Her name was Isabella Baumfree, but we know her now as Sojourn…

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Mahnoor: Keep Calm and Carry On

By being a part of the organization Football Beyond Borders, Mahnoor has learned to never give up. She carries this lesson with her, whether on the p…

2 years ago

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