Kelly Corrigan

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I'm Kelly Corrigan, guest host of TED Talks Daily, here for a special week where we're taking a deep dive into the topic of AI and family life.

Also, please join me at my podcast, Kelly Corrigan Wonders, wherever you listen to podcasts.

I'll be back tomorrow.

Thanks for listening.

You are listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day.

I'm Kelly Corrigan.

I'm a writer.

I'm a podcaster.

I'm a TED Talker.

And I am taking over for Elise Hu this week for a special series on AI and family life.

I guest curated a session about this topic at TED 2025, and I'm here now to share these very special talks with you, along with a lot of behind the scenes recordings and personal insights to shed some light on the process of how these talks came to life.

So in February, 2024, a couple months before I gave my own Ted talk, I went to Tanzania with Christie Turlington Burns, who has an organization called Every Mother Counts, which is working to reduce maternal mortality around the world, including here in the United States.

And as part of that trip, we went to a Maasai village and we met this woman.

So 25 years ago, Danini Kimsera Sikar founded the Maasai Women Development Organization to help Maasai girls stay safe and get a great education and pick their own husbands.

And then, as they became Maasai women, helped them start small businesses and manage their money and buy land.

Danini is also one of those rare people who has the respect of both government officials and village elders, artisans and policymakers.

So when I first went to the Maasai village, we were being presented with their way of life.

And to be totally honest, my reaction was pity.

I felt sorry for the women who were one of many wives.