Podcasts by She Roars
After some 50 years of coeducation, the women of Princeton University have roared to the forefront of just about every walk of life. From the Supreme Court to the U.S. Congress; from operating rooms and newsrooms to boardrooms and classrooms; from laboratories, war zones and trading floors to stages, startups and writing desks — Princeton women have penetrating views on things that matter. These are change-makers in the service of humanity.
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‘We Roar’: A new Princeton University podcast about coronavirus (COVID-19) and our community from 2020-05-15T13:57:18
Princeton is joining other universities around the world by responding to coronavirus in striking and innovative ways. From new, pandemic-related research to solutions-driven engineering; from phil...
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Emily Mann: On 30 years of ‘making trouble’ in America’s theater world from 2019-09-17T17:20:43
Celebrated playwright and theater director Emily Mann was raised, if not born, to “make trouble.” Growing up on the South Side of Chicago during the height of the civil rights movement, she decided...
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Catherine Riihimaki: On her new environmental podcast called ‘All for Earth’ from 2019-09-05T14:10:59
Catherine Riihimaki knows her way around environmental issues. She’s a geoscientist and a science communications expert with the Princeton Council on Science and Technology. From that perch, she wo...
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Maribel Hernandez Rivera: On immigration from 2019-08-21T20:19:07
Maribel Hernandez Rivera, a graduate alumna from 2010, reflects on her childhood experience as an undocumented immigrant and now champion of immigrant rights. She attributes her personal success — ...
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Jo Dunkley: On studying the origins of the universe — and sharing her love of space with the public from 2019-08-08T21:00:01
Jo first came to Princeton as a postdoc in 2006, when she worked on data from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), a space telescope that took the universe’s earliest baby pictures. Whe...
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Wendy Kopp: On 30 years of educational disruption from 2019-07-25T13:44:58
Wendy Kopp, Class of 1989, was a groundbreaking social entrepreneur long before the term was invented. She conceptualized Teach for America as part of her senior thesis and founded the organization...
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Juliet Eilperin: On swimming with sharks in Washington, D.C., and beyond from 2019-07-11T14:07:51
Juliet Eilperin, Class of 1992, is a journalist for The Washington Post with an unusual pair of specialties: congressional politics and the environment. Juliet’s first book was “Fight Club Politics...
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Stephanie Mash Sykes: On city politics and African American mayors from 2019-06-26T15:00:32
Stephanie Mash Sykes, Class of 2004, is eyeing the future of American cities. As executive director of the African American Mayors Association, she’s focused on the panoply of issues facing black u...
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Maria Ressa: On the existential threat facing free speech, journalism and democracy around the world from 2019-06-12T12:52:58
Online journalist Maria Ressa, Class of 1986, knows the best and the worst of social media. It helped drive the Philippines-based news site she co-founded, called Rappler, to 300% growth rates in i...
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Emily Carter: On universities in the service of humanity at Princeton and beyond from 2019-05-29T19:37:07
Emily Carter, the outgoing dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, looks back on 15 years at Princeton and forward to her new job as the second-ranking executive officer of U...
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Joanne Ramos: On motherhood, literature and her fictional debut from 2019-05-15T17:12:20
Joanne Ramos, Class of 1995, tackles issues that are both timely and eternal in her powerful new novel exploring surrogacy as big business. She shines a light on social class, immigration, and the ...
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Jennifer Rexford: On the exciting, exponentially enriching delights of a computational life from 2019-05-02T20:12:57
Jen Rexford, Class of 1991 and chair of Princeton’s computer science department, has seen it all. From tinkering with the first consumer PCs in 1984 to saving the internet as we know it, Jen has be...
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Chai Vasarhelyi: On making a difference through film — and winning an Oscar from 2019-04-18T14:10:22
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Class of 2000, has produced and directed award-winning documentaries all over the world, most recently the jaw-dropping “Free Solo,” for which she won the 2019 Academy Aw...
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Kathleen Biggins: On changing minds about climate change – one non-partisan conversation at a time from 2019-04-03T18:57:41
PowerPoint presentations on global warming aren’t usually met with standing ovations, but Kathleen Biggins and her group of traveling speakers are getting used to them — even in the most conservati...
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Sadaf Jaffer: On breaking political boundaries from 2019-03-20T12:07:18
How hard could it be? After working her way through Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford and now Princeton, Sadaf Jaffer has just become the mayor of Montgomery Township in New Jersey. Sadaf is the state’...
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Lynn Loo: On climate change and the “all-hands-on-deck” moment from 2019-03-06T13:40:40
Lynn Loo, a 2001 graduate alumna and director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, says this is an “all-hands-on-deck” moment for everyone with skills or technology to address cl...
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Mellody Hobson: On being a national leader in financial literacy from 2019-02-19T13:40:22
Mellody Hobson, Class of 1991, speaks out on the latest episode of the “She Roars” podcast to demystify principles of investing and discuss her own efforts to combat dangerously high rates of finan...
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Courtney Banghart: On taking every three-point shot that opens up in life from 2019-02-06T16:09:17
Courtney Banghart, head coach of Princeton’s women’s basketball team, “talks the walk” about team building, shedding fears of failure and taking every three-point shot that opens up in life. She di...
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Patricia Falcone: On women in science and weird stories from the front lines from 2019-01-10T18:32:18
As deputy director of science and technology for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Patricia Falcone ’74 has been at the forefront of women in science since becoming one of the first female en...
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Laura Trevelyan: On Brexit, America’s role in the world and‘having it all’at the same time from 2018-12-13T20:13:04
Laura Trevelyan, host of BBC World News America and Princeton parent, has a rare perspective on the United States’ role in the world. She covered her first U.S. presidential election campaign in 20...
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Asha Rangappa: On kicking down doors and tracking the Mueller Investigation from 2018-12-05T14:29:16
Asha Rangappa, Class of 1996, is an expert on counterintelligence investigations and the law behind them. A former special agent for the FBI and associate dean at Yale Law School, Asha is now...
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Indira Lakshmanan: On journalism as a public service and holding the government accountable from 2018-12-05T14:08:24
Journalist Indira Lakshmanan was a special guest on campus. She visited Princeton to give the third annual Distinguished Teaching Lecture in Service and Civic Engagement. Indira has reported from 8...
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Frances Arnold: On her Nobel Prize in chemistry and how chemical and bioengineering can save the planet from 2018-11-06T20:06:14
Frances Arnold, Class of 1979, knew a good thing when she saw it in her laboratory some 25 years ago – and the results were game changing. Defying the prevailing wisdom, Frances innovated a complet...
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Helen Zia: On walking the talk in politically divided times from 2018-11-01T14:14:58
Helen Zia ’73 is an award-winning journalist, activist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades. She has been outspoken on issues rangin...
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Jennifer Epstein: On White House reporting in the age of Trump from 2018-10-07T14:50:30
Jennifer Epstein ’08 is on the frontlines of national politics as one of the younger members of the national press corp. Currently White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News, she began covering t...
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Nancy Malkiel: On letting the“damn women”in from 2018-10-06T19:20:28
Princeton Emeritus Professor Nancy Weiss Malkiel discusses the pivotal few years around 1969 when a handful of elite, all-male universities in the U.S. and the U.K. suddenly took steps to admit wom...
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