IWF Game Changers

Fighting for the Future of Girls

Michell Nunn, President and CEO of CARE USA and a member of IWF Georgia, joins us on the International Day of the Girl Child to focus on the urgent and unique challenges that girls everywhere face related to living healthy and fulfilling lives. In this episode, she shares: Trends and statistics on the current state of girls globally Lessons from the crisis in Afghanistan A story that gives her hope for the future of girls The importance of women running for public office Key issues like education, climate change, and gender based violence

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Big Ideas Into Action

COP26 Shorts: Food and Land Use

This new series of short WRI podcasts looks at why COP26 matters for different issues. In this episode Nicholas Walton looks at food and land use with Morgan Gillespy. Other episodes focus on oceans, cities, the circular economy, clean air, business, and a look at the overall picture ahead of COP26.

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Seneca's 100 Women to Hear

Alyssa Carson: She Plans to Be the First Person to Set Foot on Mar‪s

Ever since she was 3, Alyssa Carson has dreamed of traveling to Mars. She's now 19, and she's spent the years in between getting experience at NASA space camps and earning fame as an aspiring astronaut. Alyssa is also partnering with Olay on their campaign to get more women and girls into STEM fields.

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17 Rooms

Investing in Nature to Protect and Benefit People

In this fifth interview of the “17 Rooms” podcast, Rosina Bierbaum and Richard Florizone discuss near-term opportunities and challenges for scaling nature-based solutions. Bierbaum, professor at University of Maryland and University of Michigan, and Florizone, president at International Institute for Sustainable Development, moderated Room 15 focused on Sustainable Development Goal number 15—on life on land—during the 2021 17 Rooms flagship process.

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