Meena Harris

Samara chats with the founder and CEO of The Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign about the power of wearing your values on a shirt, speaking up (and not) when you don’t know enough, why Shine Theory is the answer to everything, and how we can center our own stories and teach it to the next generation, like today.   Host: Samara Bay Executive producers: Catherine Burt Cantin & Mark Cantin, Double Vision doublevisionprojects.com Producers: Samara Bay, Sophie Lichterman and the iHeart team Theme music: Mark Cantin For Stacey Abrams’ book: indiebound.org/book/9781250214805 For more about Families Belong Together: familiesbelongtogether.org  For more about Higher Heights: higherheightsforamerica.org  For Meena’s book pre-sale: phenomenalgirl.com  In the meanwhile, here are some kids books we love that do centering well: The Day You Begin: indiebound.org/book/9780399246531 What If…: indiebound.org/book/9780316390965 Fairy Science: indiebound.org/book/9780525581390 The Proudest Blue: indiebound.org/book/9780316519007 Julian is a Mermaid: indiebound.org/book/9780763690458  For Alicia Garza’s conversation at UChicago: youtube.com/watch?v=e9-mACdR2Cw  For more on Black Lives Matter: blacklivesmatter.com  For more on Black Futures Lab: blackfutureslab.org  For more about the Crown Act: thecrownact.com  For more about Shine Theory: shinetheory.com ****What’s going on with YOUR voice? Send Samara a question for our next mailbag episode at PermissiontoSpeakPod.com or on Instagram @permissiontospeakpod****  And of course, please leave us a review and rate us on Apple Podcasts or the iHeartRadio app! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers