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, 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Rights, Whatever the Cost,鈥� launched March 8th in honor of International Women鈥檚 Day. It features a conversation with Marcia Ross and Jeff Kaufman, the team behind聽,聽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.