Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

Series produced by KALW

Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
Image by: Frank King 
Lauren Schiller, Host 

A weekly, one-hour show about how women rise up.

"Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller is a gem of a radio show...an hour of engaging and intelligent conversation with women who are making a difference. Do your listeners a favor and give them a chance to hear Inflection Point." --Hawk Mendenhall, KUT, Austin, TX

On Inflection Point, Lauren Schiller talks with women who have risen to a challenge, stepped up to create change and are ready to tell their stories. Every episode offers experiences and ideas our listeners can apply to their own lives. From KALW San Francisco and PRX.


93 Pieces

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90: "I am powerful by just living" - Sarah McBride, author of "Tomorrow Will Be Different"
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Caption: Sarah McBride, Credit: B Proud
Sarah McBride made history in 2016 as the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention. As of 2018, more than half of LGBTQ...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, and WNIN


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
89: Is 'Girl Power' Creating a Mental Health Crisis? Rachel Simmons, author "Enough As She Is"
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Caption: Rachel Simmons
For many girls today, the relentless pursuit of accomplishment is fueled by harsh self-criticism and an acute fear of failure. Rachel Simmons has b...

Bought by KWIT, KUT, WNIN, KSJD, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
88: Why Rosie the Riveter is "not my icon" - Betty Reid Soskin, National Park Service
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Caption: Betty Reid Soskin
For the past decade, 96-year-old Betty Reid Soskin has served as the nation’s oldest Park Ranger, where she gives talks at the Rosie the Riveter/WW...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
87: What Trans Women Can Teach Cis Women - Daniela Petruzalek, Diversity Activist
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Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
Daniela Petruzalek is an accomplished software engineer from Brazil, who started working with computers at the age of 14. She’s now a software engi...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
86: My Privilege Wakeup Call with Ijeoma Oluo, author of "So You Want To Talk About Race"
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An awkward conversation with her white mother about “good white people” inspired Ijeoma Oluo to take on the unenviable task of writing one of the m...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
85: How To Bring Joy Into The Resistance - Sarah Sophie Flicker and Paola Mendoza
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As national organizers for The Women’s March and leaders of The Resistance Revival Chorus, artist activists Paola Mendoza and Sarah Sophie Flicker ...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
84: How To Have A Baby In Your Own Sweet Time - Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, Author
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Caption: Rachel Lehmann-Haupt
Why should biology decide when you'll have a baby? Now the decision about when to have children has a new wrinkle--"how" to make a baby. As journal...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
83: How Girls Change The World - Paola Gianturco & Alex Sangster; Rad Women Worldwide - Kate Schatz
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There are girls all around the globe addressing tough issues that no young person should have to deal with--but must, by the luck of where and when...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
82: How To Welcome A Refugee - Christina Psarra, Doctors Without Borders
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Caption: Christina Psarra, Credit: Lauren Schiller
Refugees literally sacrifice everything to keep their families safe. Christina Psarra, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian ...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
60 (new intro): Gun Control and Gender Bias - Jessica Jin, Activist & Joann Lublin, WSJ
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Caption: Jessica Jin
After the mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs TX and the over 300 other mass shootings this year, I thought maybe we’d be having a new ...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
80: How To Get More Women In Office - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
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Caption: Kate Black
More women than ever are raising their hands to run for office. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will be different when they do? ...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
79: How To Hit Back At The "Harveys" - Carrie Goldberg, Sexual Consent and Internet Abuse Lawyer
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Caption: Carrie Goldberg, Esq., Credit: Maria Karas Photography
In Part 1 of the hour: With the Harvey Weinstein tsunami of sexual misconduct allegations, it has everyone asking, will this be the moment when eve...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
78: How To Change The Storyteller-Cristi Hegranes, Founder Global Press Institute
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Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
Cristi Hegranes wanted to be a foreign correspondent since the time she was 6 years old. Within days of achieving her dream job, after all the trad...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
77: How To Be Taken Seriously When You Have a Mystery Illness - Jennifer Brea, "Unrest"
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Caption: Jennifer Brea, Credit: Tommy Lau
Jennifer Brea was an avid traveler, a Harvard PhD student and a Princeton grad. She was engaged to be married to the man she loved. Then one day sh...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
76: How To Turn Your Dream Into A Reality - Bonny Simi, JetBlue Technology Ventures
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Caption: Bonny Simi
When Bonny Simi was 14 years old, she made a list of life goals--to be a pilot, go to college, be a TV broadcaster, be an Olympic athlete and to bu...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
5 (Re-air with new intro): How To Break The Cycle of Poverty
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Caption: Leila Janah
New book, new intro! There are billions of people across the world who are living in poverty and 800 million people who are illiterate--two-thirds ...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
75: How To Redesign Your Life-Suz Somersall, founder of KiraKira
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Caption: Suz Somersall, founder KiraKira
Suz Somersall wanted to be an engineer when she grew up but was so uninspired by the classes, she turned to an art degree instead. It wasn’t until ...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
74: How To End Ageism - Ashton Applewhite, Activist & Author
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
Ashton Applewhite is on a mission as old as humanity itself -- to change our attitudes about age and aging. Her book is "This Chair Rocks. A Manife...

Bought by WNIN, KUT, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KWMR and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
73: How Jeannette Walls Claimed Her Story, Author of "The Glass Castle"
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Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Lauren Schiller, Host, Credit: Frank King
The Glass Castle is now a film. When she was young Jeannette Walls wanted nothing more than to escape her crazy, chaotic family. She grew up in pov...

Bought by KKRN, KUT, WNIN, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSJD and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
72: How Sabaah Folayan is Changing The Narrative of Ferguson - Director of "Whose Streets"
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Caption: Sabaah Folayan, Credit: Magnolia Pictures
The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri made news, but Sabaah Folayan knew there was more to the story--so she moved across the country...

Bought by KSJD and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 53:03
  • Purchases: 2

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