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EPISODE · Jun 19, 2023 · 39 MIN

Elaine Rock "DUSTY ROADS How the Women’s Movement Took Flight", Wes Davis "AMERICAN JOURNEY", Ariane Szu-Tu of National Geographic

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Elaine Rock is a women's rights advocate, historian, and former technology executive. Elaine has published memoirs and non-fiction stories about how she and other women and men triumphed over personal and workplace adversities and emerged transformed. Her latest book, Dusty Roads: How the Women’s Movement Took Flight is the story of how Dusty became the most powerful voice of her union and whose actions were pivotal in challenging and eventually, overturning these discriminatory rules. Elaine is a member of various writers, history, and women's organizations, a former vice-president of the California Writers Club—Redwood Branch, and co-chair of the Redwood Writers 2018 Pen to Published Writers Conference. https://elainerock.com/Wes Davis is the author of American Journey, which invites readers along on the road trips Henry Ford and Thomas Edison took with the nature writer John Burroughs in the early years of the twentieth century, and The Ariadne Objective, a narrative account of the underground war to rescue Crete from Nazi occupation during World War II. He is also the editor of An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. His writing has appeared in publications that include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and The Nation. He now lives outside New York City with his family and other animals. https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324000327/about-authorAriane Szu-Tu is a senior editor for National Geographic Kids Books. In her time at Nat Geo Kids, she's edited a range of children's books on a variety of fun topics, specializing in books for ages 8-12. Books she's worked on include the 100 Things series, Weird But True Know-It-All series, Not-So-Common Cents, Pirate Queens, Ultimate Book of Reptiles, Kids vs. Plastic, How to Survive in the Age of Dinosaurs, and many more. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/

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