Clever Girls

In this long awaited episode, Kimberlee and Allison discuss two women who weren't given the credit they deserved for their incredible scientific research and discoveries. Microbiologist Dr. Esther Lederberg pioneered work in bacterial genetics and nuclear physicist Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu came to be known as the Queen of Nuclear Research. Both women were overlooked when men in their lives won Nobel Prizes for work based off their research.

It's the final episode of our continent by continent minisode miniseries! Allison and Kimberlee discuss women who have accomplished some incredible "firsts" on Antarctica. Ingrid Christensen was the first woman to see Antarctica from the air and the first to set foot on the mainland. Jade Hameister, among other records, is the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick and the first woman to set a new route to the South Pole unsupported and unassisted.

It's the penultimate minisode of our International Women MiniSeries! Kimberlee and Allison discuss women from North America and their efforts to bring a female perspective to politics. Laura Starcher and the Petticoat Revolution turned around a small town in Oregon, while in the present Portia Simpson-Miller paved the way as Jamaica's first female Prime Minister. 

This episode, Allison and Kimberlee discuss two women from Europe. Artemisia I of Caria joined Persian king Xerxes in his quest to invade Greece and proved to be a powerful military commander and strategist. In the present, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the second woman to climb fourteen eight-thousand feet mountains and the first woman to do so without the use of supplementary oxygen AND she won the National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award.

In their fourth minisode of the continental International Women’s Miniseries, Kimberlee and Allison discuss women from Africa. Dahomey's Women Warriors were a force to be reckoned with for 3 centuries! Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu is changing lives at home and abroad with the 1st Fair Trade (and Africa's fastest growing) footwear company, sold around the world.

Continuing our continent by continent celebration of women around the world, Allison and Kimberlee discuss two women, past and present, from the continent of Australia. From the past, Fanny Cochrane Smith was the last fluent speaker of a Tasmanian language, and in the present Jessica Watson is an award winning sailor who completed a solo voyage around the world at the age of 16.

International Women’s Day needs more female inspiration from around the world! In their second mini of their continental miniseries, Kimberlee and Allison discuss the revolutionary work of current and historical women in South America: environmental activist and organizer Máxima Acuña and Reconquista rebel spy and national heroine, Policarpa Salavarrieta.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Kimberlee and Allison kick off their continent by continent miniseries releasing two separate minisodes at once! This (slightly mini) minisode features women of Asia, past and present: Sonita Alizadeh, an Afghan women’s rights activist and rapper, and Fu Hao, an ancient Chinese military general and high priestess.

Kimberlee Kelly and Allison Hendrick make space to nerd out over their love for the cosmos and the groundbreaking work of two remarkable astrophysicists, Dr. Jedidah Isler and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Allison and Kimberlee discuss current events in the U.S. and the contributions of Septima Poinsette Clark and Fannie Lou Hamer, two women who worked tirelessly to register, educate, and mobilize Black Americans to exercise their constitutional rights.