Sarah Austin Jenness
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406 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Aug
Sarah Austin Jenness’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I want to thank all our storytellers, including Jordy Ponce for being with us today.
Here he is again to close us out.
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Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm Sarah Jane Johnson, and on this episode, women's basketball. March Madness has us thinking about threes, dunks, and triple doubles, but March is also Women's History Month, so we're thinking about basketball in a slightly different way.
We're thinking about Title IX, how women athletes are still fighting to get the same respect that men are, and about all the great March Madness moments that women created, from Charlotte Smith's buzzer beater in 1994 to Candace Parker's epic first time dunking in the tournament, to Kaitlyn Clark reigning threes, we want to highlight how incredible sports can be for everyone.
So we've got two stories all about hoop dreams and what happens when they come true or don't. Whether you're rooting for South Carolina, UConn, or my alma mater, LSU, go Tigers! We hope you'll enjoy. First up is Toya Chester. Toya told this at a Boston main stage where the theme of the night was on thin ice.
A note that this story was told in 2020 and due to our reduced socially distanced audience, things are a little quieter than you might be used to. Here's Toya live at the Moth.
That was Toya Chester. Toya is an electrician who teaches aspiring electricians in the Boston Public Schools. She has a husband, some kids, and a couple of dogs. If you'd like to see photos of Toya playing basketball in college, head over to themoth.org slash extras. We were curious to see if Toya was rooting for anyone this March Madness. Here's what she had to say.
I hear you, Toya. We'll be back in a second with another story from the court. Welcome back. In my high school in the 90s, my March Madness was getting ready for spring training and track and field. I was one of the first female high school pole vaulters in the state of Nebraska, which is one of my favorite sentences to say out loud.
And while we may not have been flying sky high those first few years, I was very proud to be a part of that history. And it was all because of Title IX, high schoolers advocating for ourselves, and our coaches believing in us. In 2019, I went back to Nebraska where I took a different kind of leap and told a story in front of a few hundred people at the Moth.
There in the audience was my track coach, Mr. Sather, sitting in the front row all those years later. So to everyone who lifts up women and girls on and off the field, thanks coach. Up next is Dame Wilburn. Dame told us at a Detroit Grand Slam where the theme of the night was out of bounds. Here's Dame live at the Moth.
That was Dane Wilburn. Dame is a storyteller, Moth mainstage host, and host of her own podcast, Dame's Eclectic Brain. Her storytelling began as a way of keeping cool in the summertime on her grandmother's porch in Macon, Georgia. She now lives in Detroit, Michigan. That's it for this episode.
From all of us here at the Moth, we hope that whatever team you're rooting for this March Madness, they win the whole thing.
This is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Sarah Austin Janess. In this episode, lifelong learning and the pursuit of the unfamiliar. Everything novel and new. We start in Central Park with an unlikely catalyst for change. Pond scum, also known as algal blooms. Notion Kahn shared this story with us as part of a moth education showcase when she was a high school student in New York City.
Here's Notion live at the Moth.
That was Notion Khan. These days, Notion is a student at the University of Rochester. And yes, you guessed it, she's studying chemical engineering. Her hobbies include making art, reading manga, and capturing nature on her phone. As a chemical engineering student, her focus is on renewable energy, and she works on new experiments every week.
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