More to Her Story: The Podcast
Episodes
Abby Maxman, President, Oxfam America
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Abby Maxman is the President and CEO of Oxfam America. She brings over 30 years of experience in the field, and she previously served as Deputy Secret...
Bri Stensrud, Director, Women of Welcome
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Christian author and advocate Bri Stensrud, who opens up about her work with Women of Welcome and the courage it takes to build ...
Mo Ogrodnik and Yasmeen Hassan
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Ogrodnik is an NYU Professor who served as the associate dean of the arts for NYU in Abu Dhabi. She is the author of GULF, a novel tracing the inte...
Leyla Hussein, Founder of The Dahlia Project
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leyla Hussein is a Somali-British psychotherapist, activist, and survivor of female genital mutilation. She is the founder of The Dahlia Project, the ...
Women, Girls, and the Status of Aid
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As part of our In Focus series, we examine the impact of U.S. global aid cuts on women and girls around the world.
Sudan in Focus: Sexual Assault as a Weapon of War
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our In Focus series, we investigate the use of mass sexual violence as a weapon of war in Sudan. Executive Producer: Francesca Gilardi Quadrio Cur...
Bellamy Young, CARE Ambassador
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many of you know Bellamy Young as Mellie Grant from the series Scandal, but beyond the screen, she’s a passionate advocate for global humanitarian i...
Michelle Nunn, President and CEO of CARE
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle Nunn leads more than 8,000 people working in 121 countries to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. In her nine years as Pr...
Melissa Fleming, Head of Global Communications for the United Nations
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Melissa Fleming is the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at the United Nations. Previously, she served as the Head of Communications a...
Mary Maker, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Maker is a South Sudanese refugee and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador. She is also an actress, a fashio...
Yasmine Mohammed, Human Rights Activist
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian human rights activist and author of Egyptian and Palestinian descent. Yasmine escaped from a forced, abusive marriage t...
Paul O'Brien, Executive Director, Amnesty USA
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul O’Brien is the Executive Director at Amnesty International USA. Over his career, he has done human rights research and advocacy in more than ...
Leslie T. Chang, Journalist and Author
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Leslie T. Chang has written about women in the developing world for two decades. Her reporting method is to immerse herself in the daily lives of ordi...
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, President and CEO, International Peace Institute
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein is a Jordanian former diplomat and the President and CEO of the International Peace Institute. He is the Perry World Hous...
Masuma Ahuja, Head of Freeda UK
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Masuma Ahuja is a journalist who calls three countries home and reports on people, power, and politics worldwide. Her work focuses primarily on women’...
Diary of A Gazan Girl
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
24-year-old Shereen Sabbah from Gaza shares audio diaries for More to Her Story.
Natashya Gutierrez, President, Rappler
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Natashya Gutierrez is the President of Rappler, the Phillippine’s leading digital news company. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of VICE Asia-Pacif...
Jane Ferguson, Author and Award-Winning Journalist
23 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jane Ferguson is an Irish-British journalist, special correspondent for PBS NewsHour, and contributor to The New Yorker. Jane has reported from war...
Shudufhadzo Musida, Miss South Africa 2020
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shudufhadzo Musida is a South African model and activist who was crowned Miss South Africa 2020. She is a dedicated advocate and spokeswoman for ...
Isobel Yeung, Award-Winning Documentary Correspondent
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Isobel Yeung is an Emmy-award-winning long-form documentary correspondent. She has covered a wide variety of stories concerning major global issues su...
Rothna Begum, Human Rights Watch
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rothna Begum is the Senior Women’s Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch, focusing on discrimination and violence against women and girls in the M...
Chanel Contos, Founder of Teach Us Consent
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chanel Contos has sparked an international movement that has led to mandating consent education in every school across Australia. The 24-year-old foun...
Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Robinson served as the first woman President of Ireland. She also served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Secr...
Woman Life Freedom: Iranian Activists Speak Out
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In September 2022, a young woman named Mahsa Amini died in the custody of Iran’s “morality” police. Her death sparked nationwide protests across...
In Conversation with Nicholas Kristof
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Kristof is one of the most well-known journalists and vital voices of our time. A winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he wrote an op-ed column f...
Anna Fratsyvir on Life as a Young Ukrainian Journalist During Wartime
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Fratsyvir was studying journalism at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv when her life - as millions of other Ukrainians' lives - ch...
Clarissa Ward, CNN's Chief International Correspondent
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Clarissa Ward is CNN's Chief International Correspondent. She has spent nearly two decades reporting from front lines around the world, from Syria, Ir...
Eliza Anyangwe, Editor of CNN's As Equals
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Eliza Anyangwe is editor of CNN's As Equals, an award-winning series that aims to explore systemic gender inequality around the world. She has spent m...
Yalda Hakim, BBC World News Chief International Correspondent
07 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yalda Hakim is one of the most well-known faces in broadcast news today. As BBC World News’ Chief International Correspondent, she anchors the flag...
Merissa Khurma, Director of the Middle East Program at The Wilson Center
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Merissa Khurma is the program director of the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center. She was a non-resident fellow in the International Security Pr...
Laurie Adams, CEO, Women for Women
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Adams is the CEO of Women for Women International, a leading global organization dedicated to working with women survivors of war and conflict....
Linda Kay Klein on Breaking Free from Sexual Shame
03 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Linda Kay Klein is the founder and president of Break Free Together, a nonprofit storytelling organization dedicated to helping people - particularly...
Afrah Nasser, Human Rights Watch
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Afrah Nasser is a multi award-winning journalist and blogger from Yemen, currently living in forced exile in Sweden. In 2017, Afrah won the Committee...
Tania Rashid, Award-Winning Correspondent and Producer
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tania Rashid is an award-winning correspondent and producer. She has worked for networks like Al Jazeera, CNN, PBS Newshour, NBC News, National Geogr...
Aija Mayrock, Bestselling Poet and Author
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aija Mayrock is a bestselling poet, author, and More to Her Story ambassador. She has spoken to over four million people nationwide on bullying, men...
Mohsin Mohi Ud Din, Founder and CEO of #MeWe International
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mohsin Mohi Ud Din is an artist, activist, and the founder and CEO of #MeWe International, which works to enable vulnerable communities to reframe the...
Manar Amro on Navigating Feminism, Faith, and Patriarchy
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Manar Amro is a dear friend and fierce gender equality advocate. I hope you join us for this enlightening and personal conversation about the intersec...
Maeve Patterson, United Nations Refugee Agency
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maeve Patterson serves as head of communications at the UN Refugee Agency in Brussels. Before working at UNHCR, Maeve served as the head of communicat...
Trailer
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas