Scholars at Risk announces the launch of a new podcast, , featuring conversations with interesting, thoughtful, and inspiring individuals whose work falls at the always sensitive intersection of power and ideas.

Episode 1, “Women’s Rights, Whatever the Cost,� launched March 8th in honor of International Women’s Day. It features a conversation with Marcia Ross and Jeff Kaufman, the team behind , a beautiful and inspiring new film about Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh.

Sotoudeh has been called “Iran’s Nelson Mandela.” The filmmakers show her as she is: a lawyer, activist, feminist, wife, mother, friend, and a central figure in an extraordinary generation of Iranian women who simply refuse to accept anything less than full and equal rights.