Episodes

Sept. 25, 2025

From Policy to Protest and Persistence: Dr Socorro Reyes:

From classroom to courtroom, from policy rooms to protest lines, Dr. Socorro Reyes has spent decades fighting for women's rights across Asia and beyond. In this captivating conversation, she reveals how personal experiences –...

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July 23, 2025

Lynn Gilbert, Documenting life's unseen layers: what we see and what …

Lynn Gilbert, a celebrated documentary photographer and author, shares her extraordinary six-decade journey capturing often-unseen truths through her lens. A rich, moving and layered legacy: unusual photographs of children in...

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July 6, 2025

Stitch by Stitch, Word by Word: Grandmother Power in Action

Toya Algarin - an innovator, community organizer and educator, is the living embodiment of Grandmother Power, and the founder of Grandmothers4Literacy in Philadelphia. Toya says now that she’s a grandmother she’s walking in h...

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May 9, 2025

Radical imagination, healing, & nurturing Organizations with a Soul: …

What happens when we bring our whole hearts and selves to our activism? Hope Chigudu, a self-described "uncontainable feminist activist" encourages us not to leave our hearts at the gate of our organizations, to revel in radical imagination, bring love and healing to the work, share power, create o…

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March 17, 2025

Grandmothers for Gun Responsibility - Join the National Movement!

Join the Launch March 17th at 3pm ET and join Grandmothers for Gun Responsibility - just go to: https://thegrandmothers.org/ Margaret Heldring never imagined spending her retirement organizing to end gun violence. Yet follow...

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Dec. 14, 2024

Kira Gawenus: “Together this intergenerational partnership between th…

Welcome! This is ilana Landsberg-Lewis, your host for the Wisdom at Work podcast: Elderwomen, Older women and Grandmothers on the Move! What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - ...

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Dec. 14, 2024

Faith Young: “Any lack of protection of the human rights of older per…

Welcome! This is ilana Landsberg-Lewis, your host for the Wisdom at Work podcast: Elderwomen, Older women and Grandmothers on the Move! What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - ...

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Dec. 10, 2024

Catherine Elise Dumont: It is very important that older people of the…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions and ...

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Dec. 10, 2024

Moira Allan: It has been talked about for so long now - it really is …

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions and ...

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Dec. 5, 2024

Frances Zainoeddin: "Do not go backward on the rights we gained as yo…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions and ...

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Dec. 5, 2024

Margaret Young, Founder, Age Knowble: "The power is in the people, yo…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions and ...

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Dec. 4, 2024

Theresa Flavin: "Turning 65 and diagnosed with dimentia, you are ostr…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions and advocates will share with us why they care about the rights of older perso…

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Dec. 4, 2024

Vijay Naraidoo: "With a UN Convention for the rights of Older Persons…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions and ...

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Dec. 4, 2024

Nena Georgantzi: "Where change happens, is really on the ground... go…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... ' Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions an...

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Dec. 4, 2024

Jane Nyawira Miano: "I envisage a UN Convention that gives us a voice…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... 'Age With Rights and Dignity' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions and ...

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Dec. 4, 2024

Ferdoushi Begum: “A UN Convention will be a pledge with the legal for…

What follows is a special and exciting 10-part series... ' Age With Rights and Dignity ' - 10 interviews in which we will hear from older and younger advocates from different corners of the world. These committed champions a...

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Oct. 6, 2024

A Leader amongst 23,000 Grandmothers!

A Leader amongst 23,000 Grandmothers! Jolly Babirukamu, affectionately known as Kaaka Jolly – is one of those leaders who brings light into the world – motivating and mobilizing with boundless energy and deep insights. She is...

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Aug. 22, 2024

“Wherever you are on this journey… you are welcome!"

Three powerful voices: Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, Esther Farmer, and Pam Sporn. For decades they fought Israel's Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, defying dismissal and disrespect from the mainstream community. Now the...

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June 3, 2024

A Love Affair with CEDAW and Gender Equality: In Conversation with Al…

Meet Alda Facio, a feminist activist, educator, creator and jurist whose work has influenced thinking about women's rights from Costa Rica to the United Nations. In this episode, Alda talks about her love affair with the Conv...

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May 28, 2024

Louise Lamothe - Reflections and resonance: from healing, to the danc…

Join me for an intimate conversation with Louise Lamothe, a Swampy Cree grandmother and great-grandmother, whose story is a testament to the healing journeys and deep insights older women and Indigenous ways of knowing and b...

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May 5, 2024

Hendrica Okondo: Reflections on history, power and generations of fem…

This week, I had the honour of sitting down with Hendrica Okondo, a natural storyteller who makes the phrase 'living memory' resonate, with profundity and humour! Hendrica paints a vivid picture of colonial Kenya and indepen...

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March 24, 2024

Aundra Willis Carrasco: Writing the Untold Story of Her Brother's Pla…

When the echoes of jazz legends still rumbled through Cleveland, a determined young man named Winston Willis carved out a slice of American history. His remarkable sister, Aundra, joins me to share a riveting tale of triumph ...

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March 24, 2024

Without Grandmothers, what would our world look like today?!

Grandmothers on the Move – A Grandmother, a Leader, a Visionary, and a tireless advocate for people living with HIV & AIDS, Pfiriaeli Kiwia is the inspiring founder and program director of Kimara Peers Educators and Health Pr...

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April 18, 2023

Dr. Paula Rochon: Women's Age Lab, A Global First!

Dr. Paula Rochon: Women's Age Lab - a Global First! Join me for a conversation with the founding Director of the truly necessary, innovative and exciting Women's Age Lab! The first and only centre of its kind in the world! Wo...

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