Elisa Gambino began her career as a producer in the CNN Rome bureau.  After 15 years of covering conflict and upheavals  for CNN, she together with her partner and husband founded their own production company, One Production Place Films, where they devote their time, energy and talents to sharing stories about how we live in community with each other.  One of Elisa’s recent projects was the catalyst for the largest environmental justice grant in the state of New York when the governor provided 150 million dollars for the city of Mount Vernon to repair their sewage systems. In ..read more

Sharon Kathryn D’Agostino is a passionate advocate for the empowerment of women and girls, and for the human rights of all. Sharon founded the story-sharing platform, SayItForward.org, and she hosts monthly Women’s Circles online. She believes in the power of stories to spark our compassion for ourselves and for others, and to recognize that we are all connected. In this episode, Julia and Sharon discuss the virtual Women's Circles that Sharon hosts and the importance of self-exploration and community. Julia shares her experiences of participating in the circles and Sharon speaks about unfil ..read more

"I strongly feel that the world is like a puzzle. One piece of the puzzle is not important than another." Mwanahamisi “Mishy” Singano joins us in the Girls' Globe Solidarity studio and talks about WEDO, the Women's Environment and Development Organization, and what feminist solidarity means to her ..read more

River Savante is 16 years old and has already set a world record as the youngest American female to summit Imja Tse in the Nepal Everest region, which is 20,500 ft. River is training to be the youngest American female to summit Mount Everest, scheduled for next May/June 2025. In this episode, River discusses: - going with her mother leading trips to Kathmandu after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal to help with humanitarian aid, and building earthquake-proof homes, and sponsoring schools. - adding an Everest Base Camp trip to their expedition company as it evolved into a trekking company. - bein ..read more

"Women's rights organizations should collectively come up to speak about the issues of all women with disabilities. The fact that we are women with disabilities does not make us lesser women." Lucy Mulombi shares her call to action in the Girls' Globe Solidarity Studio ..read more

Sadia Jahan Rothi is an Environmental and Climate Activist. She is the Board Director of Eco-Network Global, which is a youth-led organization. In 2018, she started climate and environmental activism with Eco-Network when she first witnessed how climate change has been affecting the lives of coastal regions people of Bangladesh. She is also a climate ..read more

Over the past eight years, The Hunger Project-India’s Adolescent Girls’ Program has strengthened adolescent girls’ voice, agency and choice. This has been done through girls’ leadership workshops, life-skills education and need-based interventions. Peer networks in the form of Sukanya Club (Bihar) and Kishori meetings (Karnataka) are an integral element of the programme. There girls learn how to articulate their needs and advocate for change in their communities. In 2022, Gayatri, a young girl from Karnataka, India, became the vice president of the locally formed Child Rights Protection Commi ..read more

Zimbabwean-born Micha Serraf is the winner of WILPF’s Second International Photography Collaboration which invited photographers from around the world to respond to the theme 'Men and Love in Times of War and Polarisation'. Micha Serraf won for his series of images which he describes as "attempting to find the means and the methods of conjuring what Bell Hooks refers to as ‘feminist masculinity’. A masculinity that is abundantly concerned with reciprocal coexistence with the community in which it exists. A masculinity that is abundantly concerned with the wellbeing of women, other m ..read more

Ana Laura Araya is the Executive Director and Co Founder of Soy Niña, a girl-serving organization that works in urban communities in San Jose, Costa Rica. "I saw that there was a need for something in Costa Rica, and there was nothing at the time, nothing like Soy Niña." We talk about her work, about the challenges of starting and managing an organization like Soy Niña. She shares some incredibly inspirational stories from the girls in the community and some of her own. We talk about girls' self esteem, about hope and the motivation to take action.  ..read more

Belinda Greb is an accomplished nature and wildlife photographer who has been influenced by her sense of belonging in, and connecting with, nature. In this episode, Belinda discusses: - growing up in a rural setting and finding solitude and peace in nature - her interest in photography and beginning her work as a professional photographer with landscape photography and transitioning to more of a focus on wildlife, photographing animals in their natural habitat, trying to capture their essence and translate that to others - the consciousness of animals - the increasing impact of climate change ..read more