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They changed the world. So can you. Each week, award-winning journalist Aarti Shahani meets fascinating humans who've done big things. They answer two questions: (1) How does power work in t...
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Franklin Leonard finds the best scripts in Hollywood
His annual ‘Black List’ elevated films like ‘Juno,’ ‘Argo’ and ‘The King’s Speech.’ Now he wants to change how Hollywood finds its talent. F...
Former ‘Roe’ attorney Gloria Allred on NDAs, empowering victims and a world without legal abortion
Back in the 1960s – before Gloria Allred became one of America’s most prominent women’s rights attorneys – she says she was raped at gunpoin...
Dolores Huerta on organizing, motherhood and ‘sexual coercion’ in her labor rights movement
She helped organize one of the largest labor movements in history, but her name is often left out of the narrative. As an organizer in the 1...
‘Hangover’ producer Scott Budnick cannot be pigeonholed
Scott Budnick might be best known for producing The Hangover trilogy, one of the most successful R-rated comedy franchises ever. But making...
How 'Queer Eye' Changed The Culture
'Queer Eye,' both the original version on Bravo and the newer Netflix reboot, is one of the most celebrated reality TV shows on the planet....
Stacey Abrams does everything
Stacey Abrams is one of the highest profile democracy activists on the planet. She's also an entrepreneur, lawyer, novelist, and she nearly...
Sal Khan, Founder Of Khan Academy
First, a lovely update from Aarti. Then, Sal Khan, a man who challenged the education model we’ve been using for centuries. In so doing, he...
From BLM activist to Congress: Rep. Cori Bush
In this week’s episode of Art of Power, host Aarti Shahani sits down with Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Mo.), a former Black Lives Matter activ...
Indra Nooyi smiles through the BS
In this week’s episode of Art of Power, host Aarti Shahani sits down with Indra Nooyi, who became the first woman and immigrant to head a Fo...
Vladimir Putin hates her: Meet Daria Kaleniuk of Ukraine
In this week’s episode of Art of Power, host Aarti Shahani sits down with the woman who helped build Ukraine’s fledgling democracy. Daria Ka...
Jameela Jamil wants vengeance
Jameela Jamil has been revered and despised as the internet’s loudest anti-fat-shaming activist, a social media Candyman out to get the diet...
‘I am literally nonbinary, and not just in gender’: Taiwan Digital Minister Audrey Tang on COVID, democracy and identity
Audrey Tang is a genius, a hacktivist, and a software engineer who protested Taiwan’s government during the 2014 Sunflower Movement – and th...
Living between war and peace: Azmat Khan on the personal toll of war reporting
America’s air campaign against terrorism in the Middle East was one of the most precise in history, according to military officials and medi...
How Big Tech silences dissent: Timnit Gebru’s insider account
Google hired computer scientist Timnit Gebru to sniff out bias and other unethical practices in the company’s sprawling artificial intellige...
Olympic champion Allyson Felix in her own shoes ... literally
Allyson Felix used her legs to become the most decorated track athlete in American history, with more world titles than Usain Bolt and Carl...
Journalism is not a ‘neutral profession’: Nikole Hannah-Jones on ‘The 1619 Project’
Nikole Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for creating The 1619 Project, a series from The New York Times that reframes American history by...
How will you fix this broken world?
The inaugural season of WBEZ’s Art of Power podcast comes to a close after nearly 30 episodes. In our season finale, Aarti asks listeners to...
‘You Cannot Take From Me What Is Mine’: Tarana Burke, ‘Me Too’ Movement Founder
Tarana Burke created the “Me Too” movement 15 years before #MeToo went viral in the wake of the 2017 Harvey Weinstein scandal. On Art of Pow...
‘You Don’t Even Know You’re Invisible’: Margaret Cho Forces A Generation To Be Seen
Margaret Cho, an elder stateswoman in comedy, began touring the stand up circuit as a teenager. She dropped out of school and, at age 23, la...