Finding Your Written Voice: Recent Episodes

Girls Fly!

Girls Fly! Author Series is a community of American authors and activists whom all share a common belief: women and girls have a written voice.
Here you will learn much about all of the beautiful authors, their stories, and their mission to make their written voices heard.

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Karin Esterhammer is a writer and activist who believes that women and girls have a written voice. She has experience as an editor for Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and many more with multiple publications. She is a travel writer and was a travel columnist for 15 years. Join us in this amazing episode with Karin to hear more!

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Sridevi Ramanatha is an author and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. Her work can be found in the anthology All The Women in My Family Sing. Sridevi has also hosted with others a panel presentation titled “Diverse Voices of Women’s Spirituality”. Join in this amazing episode to hear more!

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Dr. Randy Kamen is an author, psychologist, educator and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. Her experience is in the quite new field of mind-body medicine where she practices at Boston University School of Medicine and Harvards Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. Dr. Kamen is also Amazon Bestseller author of Behind the Therapy Door: Simple Strategies to Transform Your Life.

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Milan Carter-Gilkey is an author, coach, mother and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. She is a freelance creative writer and contributor to Heart&Soul magazine. She writes about relationships, health, identity, and much more. Her work has been featured in the anthologies “All Women in My Family Sing” and “Who’s Your Mana?: The Voices of Unsung Women and Mothers”, Mutha Magazine and the Huffington Post. Meilan won the James D. Phelan Literary Award for her family memoir-in-progress. Tune into this great episode to learn more!

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Lisa Tener is an award-winning book writing coach, blogger and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. She aims to help you get the heart of your writing by assisting writers in all aspects of the writing process, from start to finish. Lisa is a coach, editor, publishing authority and so much more! Join us and tune into this episode to her more about Lisa Tener.

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Maria Ramos Chertok is a leader, author and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. She has over 20 years as a coach, trainer, and an organizational development consultant. She also has background in social justice and is founder/facilitator of The Butterfly Series, a writing and creative arts workshop. Maria designed The Butterfly Series for women who want to explore whats next. To learn more more about her and the series, tune into this episode and visit www.thebutterflyseries.com.

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Carol Lambert is a psychotherapist, author and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. Carol is author of the self-help book, Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner. Her desire is to help women everywhere with her evidence-based recovery processes. Carol is an expert on intimate partner abuse with over 30 years of experience.

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Cara Bradley is a best selling-author, teacher, and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. Cara is the best-selling author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine. She is a leader in body-mind intelligence and expert in mind building practices and discipline.

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Dera Williams is a writer and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. Dera writes in the genres of fiction, nonfiction and memoirs. She researches and writes about her family, as she is a family historian. Dera has co-authored multiple works and many anthologies, most currently contributing in All the Women in My Family Sing, Where’s my Tiara (fiction) and currently seeking publication of her childhood memories collection, In My Backyard: Stories of Growing Up in Oakland.

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Kira Allen is writer, poet, artist and activist who believes that women and girls have a written voice. Kira is a four time VONA Voices Fellow, amazing motivational speaker and Poetry for the People alumna. She aims to facilitate community empowerment especially for women of color.

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Padma Venkatraman, born in India, is an American author and activist who believes women and girls have a written voice. Venkatraman's debut novel, Climbing the Stairs, was released to starred reviews in Booklist, Publishers Weekly and Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA). She is author of many books like Island's End, and A Time to Dance, which reaped multiple awards and stellar recognition. Her work has been featured nationally and internationally on TV and radio.

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Susan MacDonald, MEd, is the founder of Inspiring New Perspectives, a consultancy focused on empowering educational leaders to create programs that deeply respect and nurture possibilities that lie within each child, parent, and teacher. She has been developing and delivering inspirational courses and workshops for more than 25 years. She has served as director of a Reggio-inspired preschool program, an adjunct faculty at Lesley University and Wheelock College, and as a Commonwealth of Massachusetts licensing supervisor. She holds a master’s degree in instructional design and several professional coaching certifications.

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Samina Ali is an author and activist who believes that women and girls have a written voice. Samina serves as the curator of Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art and Voices, a global, virtual exhibition for the International Museum of Women (IMOW), now part of Global Fund for Women. She is the co-founder of American Muslim feminist organization Daughters of Hajar. Her debut novel, Madras on Rainy Days, was awarded the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger award from France and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is a blogger for The Huffington Post and Daily Beast.