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Apr 2020
53m 16s

Meena Harris

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About this episode

Samara chats with the founder and CEO of The Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign about the power of wearing your values on a shirt, speaking up (and not) when you don’t know enough, why Shine Theory is the answer to everything, and how we can center our own stories and teach it to the next generation, like today.

 

Host: Samara Bay

Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com

Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team

Theme music: Mark Cantin


For Stacey Abrams’ book: indiebound.org/book/9781250214805

For more about Families Belong Together: familiesbelongtogether.org

 For more about Higher Heights: higherheightsforamerica.org

 For Meena’s book pre-sale: phenomenalgirl.com

 In the meanwhile, here are some kids books we love that do centering well:

The Day You Begin: indiebound.org/book/9780399246531

What If…: indiebound.org/book/9780316390965

Fairy Science: indiebound.org/book/9780525581390

The Proudest Blue: indiebound.org/book/9780316519007

Julian is a Mermaid: indiebound.org/book/9780763690458

 For Alicia Garza’s conversation at UChicago: youtube.com/watch?v=e9-mACdR2Cw

 For more on Black Lives Matter: blacklivesmatter.com

 For more on Black Futures Lab: blackfutureslab.org

 For more about the Crown Act: thecrownact.com

 For more about Shine Theory: shinetheory.com


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