Hey Changemaker!

Hey Changemaker!

Hey Changemaker! In this podcast, Julia Wiklander, Founder of Girls’ Globe, speaks with activists, advocates, founders, entrepreneurs, researchers and other changemakers - on the issues they care about and their journeys to doing something about it. Learn how to take inspired action and build movements of change. We’re here for uplifting conversations to build solidarity and hope - and to inspire you to use your gifts, passions, frustrations and uniqueness to follow your own purpose as a changemaker. The Hey Changemaker! podcast aims to inspire positive change for gender equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability around the world.

Episodes

March 22, 2024 33 mins

Ana Laura is the Executive Director and Co Founder of Soy Niña, a girl-serving organization that works in urban communities in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Ana Laura studied journalism and photography and graduated from Georgia State University in Atlanta. She has worked at nonprofit organizations and private foundations for over fourteen years and has experience in the areas of communications, event planning a...

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Jules Lynch is the Founder and CEO of Global Girl Project. She’s the innovative developer of the organization’s programming and she works in partnership with NGOs and schools globally to implement and run leadership programs and initiatives for girls.

Over the past twenty years, Jules has worked as a Community Social Worker and Therapist in Canada, Great Britain, and the United States. She has also spent...

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This is part 2 of invaluable advice from changemakers! With a special focus on the importance of self care, community and connecting with your own power. We hear advice on managing hopelessness and uncomfortable work.

This episode features advice from Nasra Ayub, Bulelwa Adonis, Riya Williams Yuyada, Celina de Sola, Lina Abirafeh and Sharon D'Agostino. 

"Put your health and your mental health first, there's no point in you being he...

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It’s a new year - and we’re leaving a brutal year behind and entering in to one with great challenges. It doesn’t look like the world is going to change so quickly - which means that changemakers like yourself are more important than ever! We are needed to create a world where everyone can live in freedom and dignity.

"The only thing that will bring us out of hopelessness is taking action and being in so...

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This is a takeover by ActionAid International and their campaign called #HerStory.

#HerStory is an anti-modern slavery campaign by ActionAid International to raise awareness of the prevalence of modern slavery, shed light on the impact it has on women and girls in particular, and amplify the voice of female survivors.

In this podcast, you’ll hear a conversation led by ActionAid Internationa...

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In this episode Julia Wiklander, founder of Girls' Globe and host of the Hey Changemaker! Podcast speaks about what Feminist Solidarity means and how we can be a part of building it through a global digital media movement. 

A feminist solidarity is one that sees the interlinkages of our shared humanity and planet.

If your heart breaks when witnessing what’s happening in Palestine, Sudan, Co...

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The episode features a conversation between Shiphrah Belonguel, a Girls' Globe Fellow, and Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women.

Latanya shares her personal journey into feminist grant-making, highlighting her experiences growing up as a black woman in the United States and her dedication to justice.

A turning point in her career occurred in Ethiopia, where she realized the importance of centering work aro...

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Nisha Anand is the CEO of Dream.org, a nonprofit organization that brings people together across racial, social and partisan lines to solve some of the toughest problems in the US and beyond. She is also the Political Director of Rebuild The Dream, an organization fighting for an economy that works for everyone. In essence, Nisha works at the intersection of criminal justice reform, green economics, and tech equity to...

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Kim Smouter, the Executive Director of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR). Kim is a policy and advocacy expert with nearly 20 years experience advocating social causes including LGBTQIA+ rights, employment, education and social affairs, civic space and dialogue, and digital rights.

Previously, Kim has held senior and leadership roles in the European Parliament, the European Network of National Ci...

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November 7, 2023 16 mins

In this episode of the Hey Changemaker podcast, you’ll hear a conversation from the Girls’ Globe Solidarity Studio. Girls’ Globe’s Advisor Felogene Anumo speaks with Spogmay Ahmed in a conversation centered around feminist foreign policy.

Spogmay Ahmed is the Senior Policy Advisor for the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative.

In this capacity, she helps manage the Global Partner Network for Feminist For...

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Dr. Taveeshi Gupta is the Director of Research, Evaluation and Learning at Equimundo. Her expertise lies in understanding the role of gender norms in perpetuating violence against women and children, creating inequitable home and workplace environments, and reinforcing inter-generational transmission of harmful gender identities for boys and girls.

In this conversation, Dr. Taveeshi Gupta speaks with Julia Wiklander about the new S...

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Dr. Brenda Oulo is a feminist researcher specialising in multidisciplinary topics related to the well-being of adolescent girls. As the co-director of the Girls Agency Lab (GAL), Dr. Brenda leads an initiative that spans across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Rwanda. In addition, she's currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Public Health Economics and Decision Science in the esteemed Wellcome Trust program at th...

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In this episode, Julia Wiklander speaks about the horrors happening in Palestine and Israel and in other parts of the world. She shares how she believes we must let it break our hearts, to allow for compassion and determined action. 

This episode includes audio from Sim Kern and Filippo Grande. The audio is taken from Instagram, and you can follow them @refugees and @sim_bookstagrams_badly.

Julia Wiklander is the Founder and Presid...

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Japnit Ahuja is a dynamic force of change and the founder of Go Girl. As a machine learning enthusiast, social entrepreneur and dedicated educator, Japnit's journey is incredibly inspiring.

At the age of sixteen, Japnit was selected by the Singapore Government for a fully-funded scholarship, leading her to complete her high school education in Singapore. This experience exposed her to new cultures and instilled in her the qualities...

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September 26, 2023 48 mins

Jinsella is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Demilitarise Education (dED). Over the past 5 years she has led on the development of a comprehensive model for carrying out university demilitarisation. This includes a treaty and the world’s first Universities and Arms Database which has so far uncovered over £1bn worth of UK universities partnerships with the military and defence sector. The database is an essential transparen...

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Dr. Areeg Abdalmagid Abass is a Sudanese doctor and public health professional, with over 5 years of experience tackling inequity in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). Areeg worked with the Federal Ministry of Health as a SRHR Emergency Preparedness and Response Officer focusing to anticipate vulnerability and undertake measures to more effectively mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from SRH emergencies in...

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The Hey Changemaker! Podcast is alive and well. We have a lot of interviews that have been conducted and many more scheduled in the coming weeks and months. However, those that are in the works will be published after the summer here in Sweden - coming back in September. 

In the meantime, we will be sharing many stories from changemakers around the world via the Girls’ Globe platform. So, please subscrib...

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Dr. Eva Lathrop is the Global Medical Director for Population Services International (PSI), a non-profit global health organization. 

PSI operates in over 50 countries worldwide, with programs in sexual and reproductive health, malaria, water and sanitation, HIV and non-communicable diseases.

Eva oversees a service delivery portfolio that spans over 30 countries and focuses on sexual and re...

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Dr. Maureen Okango is a fistula surgeon from Kenya. She is a is a young, vibrant consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist. Passionate about maternal and newborn care, Maureen is not only a new graduate of the fellowship of fistula surgery, but also an Emergency Obstetrics and Newborn Care trainer. She is a principle master trainer of integrated antenatal and postnatal care as well as quality improvement. and a Ministry...

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In this episode, we dive deep into one of the most ancient wounds of humanity.

Cynthia Brix is the co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. She is an ordained interfaith minister with a background in women’s issues and racial diversity. She has co-organized seven international conferences on interspirituality and two on women’s spiritual leadership across diverse religious and indige...

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