Creator of REALgirl & REALwoman Empowerment Programs, Co-Founder of TrueMoon, Author

As Sheryl Sandberg launches the Ban Bossy campaign, we FEATURE Anea Bogue, expert on self-esteem issues with girls and women. Anea is the creator and director of REALgirl®, a revolutionary empowerment program for girls ages 9 – 17, yielding incredible transformations in girls. Anea is author of '9 Ways We’re Screwing Up Our Girls and How We Can Stop,' based on her Master’s Thesis which was dedicated to the self-esteem crisis among women and girls. She has appeared on CBS and CW news shows and has been interviewed on multiple radio stations. She writes for the Huffington Post, Maria Shriver, Forbes, Expert Beacon, Shine, Disney and many more.

Firefighter

We FEATURE Sarinya Srisakul to discuss recent stories of women trying to break into the New York Fire Department. Sarinya Srisakul has been serving NYC as a firefighter since 2005. She is the first and is still the only woman firefighter of Asian descent in the FDNY. Srisakul is the current President of the United Women Firefighters and has been a dedicated member of the United Women Firefighters since the beginning of her career.

CEO

With President Obama set to host the new Ukrainian president this week, we FEATURE Ukraine expert Karyn Gershon. Karyn Gershon is the Executive Director of Project Kesher, an organization that supports a network of 200 women's groups and 90 interfaith coalitions in Belarus, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine working to build civil society, advance the status of women and promote tolerance. She has traveled to these countries approximately 60 times in the past 20 years and is in daily contact with women throughout the region.

Professor of English

To mark Women’s History Month, we FEATURE Koritha Mitchell, expert on African American literature, racial violence in United States history and contemporary culture, and black drama and performance. She is author of author of the award-winning book Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890 - 1930, which she will be speaking on this week at the Library of Congress. Koritha has appeared on Duke University’s Left of Black, the Michael Eric Dyson radio show, and ColorLines.com, and she hosts a segment on African American literature for Austin radio station KAZI-FM.