PODCAST
Change Agents
by Academy of Achievement
The Academy of Achievement presents a selection ofextraordinary men and women who have defied expectations, brokenboundaries, and made history around the world. Their words andtheir example are an inspiration to us all.
Episodes
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Barry Scheck
Barry Scheck has been honored as the most outstanding criminal defense lawyer in America. A pioneer of the use of DNA evidence, he co-founded the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School in New York City. In the past decade, the Project has helped secure the exoneration of more than 200 men...
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Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci - Part 1
Dr. Francis Collins has dedicated his career to mapping and identifying genes that cause human diseases including cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. For 15 years, he served as Director of the National Center for Human Genome research, one of the largest undertakings in the history of...
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Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci - Part 2
Dr. Francis Collins has dedicated his career to mapping and identifying genes that cause human diseases including cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. For 15 years, he served as Director of the National Center for Human Genome research, one of the largest undertakings in the history of...
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Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci - Part 3
Dr. Francis Collins has dedicated his career to mapping and identifying genes that cause human diseases including cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. For 15 years, he served as Director of the National Center for Human Genome research, one of the largest undertakings in the history of...
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Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci - Part 4
Dr. Francis Collins has dedicated his career to mapping and identifying genes that cause human diseases including cystic fibrosis and Huntington's disease. For 15 years, he served as Director of the National Center for Human Genome research, one of the largest undertakings in the history of...
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Nadine Gordimer
Born and raised in South Africa, Nadine Gordimer published her first short story in a children's magazine in 1937 at the age of 16. She left college without a degree and continued publishing short fiction in South African journals. She drew attention outside her country in 1951, when her stories...
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Paul Farmer - Part 1
For nearly 30 years, Paul Farmer has done what others thought impossible, bringing first-rate medical care to the poorest people on earth. He first traveled to Haiti as a young medical student to volunteer in the poorest part of the most disease-ridden country in the western hemisphere. He...
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Paul Farmer - Part 2
For nearly 30 years, Paul Farmer has done what others thought impossible, bringing first-rate medical care to the poorest people on earth. He first traveled to Haiti as a young medical student to volunteer in the poorest part of the most disease-ridden country in the western hemisphere. He...
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Brian Wilson
The songs Brian Wilson created as leader of the Beach Boys combined the rhythms of rock and roll with Baroque counterpoint and jazz harmony to create an exhilarating sound that has become the perennial soundtrack of the American summer. Despite near deafness in one ear, Brian Wilson began...
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Challenges for Africa Panel - Part 1
Three panelists bring unique points of view to a discussion of 21st century Africa. The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the first woman to serve as the elected leader of an African nation. The Harvard-trained economist survived death threats, exile and imprisonment in her 25-year...
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Challenges for Africa Panel - Part 2
Three panelists bring unique points of view to a discussion of 21st century Africa. The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the first woman to serve as the elected leader of an African nation. The Harvard-trained economist survived death threats, exile and imprisonment in her 25-year...
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Challenges for Africa Panel - Part 3
Three panelists bring unique points of view to a discussion of 21st century Africa. The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the first woman to serve as the elected leader of an African nation. The Harvard-trained economist survived death threats, exile and imprisonment in her 25-year...
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Greg Mortenson
One day in 1993, a lost mountain climber, starving and disoriented, stumbled from the slopes of the treacherous peak known as K2 into an isolated Pakistani village. The impoverished villagers sheltered and fed him until he was well enough to move on. When he learned they had no school for their...
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Greg Mortenson - Part 2
One day in 1993, a lost mountain climber, starving and disoriented, stumbled from the slopes of the treacherous peak known as K2 into an isolated Pakistani village. The impoverished villagers sheltered and fed him until he was well enough to move on. When he learned they had no school for their...
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Nicholas Kristof
Twice a week, millions of readers of The New York Times turn to Nicholas Kristof's column for firsthand insights into breaking news from around the world. His travels as a reporter have taken him to 140 countries, including multiple visits to hot spots such as Iraq, Iran and North Korea. In the...
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Dr. Elias Zerhouni - Part 1
In 1975, Elias Zerhouni, at age 24, came to the United States from Algeria with $369 in his pocket. He had taught himself just enough English to pass an equivalency exam. A recent graduate of the University of Algiers medical school, he had come to take up a residency in radiology, hardly...
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Dr. Elias Zerhouni - Part 2
In 1975, Elias Zerhouni, at age 24, came to the United States from Algeria with $369 in his pocket. He had taught himself just enough English to pass an equivalency exam. A recent graduate of the University of Algiers medical school, he had come to take up a residency in radiology, hardly...
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Steven Rosenberg - Part 1
Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg is the Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He pioneered the development of immunotherapy that has resulted in the first effective immunotherapies for selected patients with advanced cancer. Dr. Rosenberg also pioneered the development…
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Steven Rosenberg - Part 2
Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg is the Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He pioneered the development of immunotherapy that has resulted in the first effective immunotherapies for selected patients with advanced cancer. Dr. Rosenberg also pioneered the development…
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Steven Rosenberg - Part 3
Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg is the Chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. He pioneered the development of immunotherapy that has resulted in the first effective immunotherapies for selected patients with advanced cancer. Dr. Rosenberg also pioneered the development…
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Arthur Golden
Arthur S. Golden is the author of Memoirs of a Geisha. Readers and critics were stunned that an American man -- a first-time novelist at that -- could so vividly create the internal life of a Japanese woman living the almost unimaginably alien and structured life of a traditional geisha in the...
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Dr. Ian Frazer
Ian Frazer was working with AIDS patients in the early 1980s when he first noticed a correlation between the sexually transmitted papilloma virus and cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer death among women, especially in the developing world. A young immunologist, newly arrived in...
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Ralph Nader
"There's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling." In 1965 Ralph Nader asked a question that shocked America. In his book Unsafe at Any Speed he asked why thousands of Americans were being...
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Tom Friedman - Part 1
An exceptional journalist may be honored with one Pulitzer Prize in a long career. Thomas Friedman has already received three: two for International Reporting and a third for Commentary. Over the years, he has covered a coup in Turkey, the Iran-Iraq War, the civil war in Lebanon, the…
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Tom Friedman - Part 2
An exceptional journalist may be honored with one Pulitzer Prize in a long career. Thomas Friedman has already received three: two for International Reporting and a third for Commentary. Over the years, he has covered a coup in Turkey, the Iran-Iraq War, the civil war in Lebanon, the…
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Tom Friedman - Part 3
An exceptional journalist may be honored with one Pulitzer Prize in a long career. Thomas Friedman has already received three: two for International Reporting and a third for Commentary. Over the years, he has covered a coup in Turkey, the Iran-Iraq War, the civil war in Lebanon, the…
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Bob Woodward
Fresh out of the Navy, Bob Woodward washed out in his first attempt to work for The Washington Post, and went to work for a tiny suburban weekly. A year later, he was back at the Post and at age 29 found himself in the middle of one of the biggest stories of the century. With the full support of...
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Dana Priest - Part 1
In 2007, Americans were shocked to discover the conditions in outpatient facilities of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Hundreds of wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were living in dilapidated buildings, infested with cockroaches, rodents and black mold. The reporter who...
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Dana Priest - part 2
In 2007, Americans were shocked to discover the conditions in outpatient facilities of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Hundreds of wounded veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were living in dilapidated buildings, infested with cockroaches, rodents and black mold. The reporter who...
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Hans Keirstead
As a Ph.D. student at the University of British Columbia, Hans Keirstead invented a method for regenerating damaged spinal cords using embryonic human stem cells. His work holds promise, not only for the treatment of spinal cord injury, but for multiple sclerosis and stroke. When the federal...
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Julie Taymor
Heralded as the most imaginative director and designer working in the performing arts today, Julie Taymor is the creative mastermind behind the spectacular Broadway production of The Lion King. She directed the play, designed the brilliantly colored costumes, wrote additional lyrics and…
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Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen is an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for science and technology. His most famous invention may be the Segway powered scooter, but he holds more than 440 U.S. and foreign patents, many of them for innovative medical devices that have expanded the frontiers of health...
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Dr. Bernard Kouchner
As Founder and first President of Doctors Without Borders (Medicins sans frontieres -- MSF), Dr. Bernard Kouchner has led medical relief teams into the worst disaster areas and bloodiest war zones of our times, often defying ruthless armed combatants, to offer aid to the suffering victims without...
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page
The most-used Web search service in the world, Google conducts more than a billion searches a day, in over 100 languages. Both the Google search engine and the enormously successful company that shares its name were the creation of two Stanford University graduate students, then in their mid-20s:...
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Ray Charles Live Performance
Ray Charles (1930 -2004) was born in Albany, Georgia, at the beginning of the Great Depression. He began to lose his sight in his early childhood, and was completely blind by age seven. At age 15, he was an orphan. At 16, he moved on his own to Seattle, Washington to make a career in music. A...
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Bono
Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, Paul "Bono" Hewson was still in his teens when he answered an ad posted on a school bulletin board to join a fledgling rock band. It became one of the most original, best-loved rock groups of all time: U2. Bono's passionate vocals are heard on landmark albums....
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Pierre Omidyar
Today, Pierre Omidyar is hailed as the architect of a new age of digital commerce, but the founder of eBay, the world's largest personal online trading community, became a web entrepreneur almost by accident. In 1995, he created the prototype for an online auction site as an experiment on his...
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Story Musgrave and Donna Shirley
This podcast, recorded at the Academy of Achievement's 2000 gathering in Scottsdale, Arizona, features two outstanding space scientists, Story Musgrave and Donna Shirley. Story Musgrave grew up on a farm in Western Massachusetts, with what he calls "an extraordinarily dysfunctional family."...
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Maya Lin
Maya Lin is the world-renowned architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, and one of the most important public artists of our times. Her parents fled China just before the Communist takeover in 1949, eventually settling in Athens, Ohio, where both became professors at Ohio...
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Dr. Judah Folkman
Dr. Judah Folkman needed persistence. For 20 years his research in angiogenesis met with hostility and derision. Almost alone among researchers, Folkman believed the growth of cancer could be checked, and tumors eliminated, by depriving tumors of their blood supply, and that the blood supply…
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Dr. William Magee
Kathleen Magee and William Magee, M.D. are the founders of Operation Smile, a nonprofit organization that dispatches volunteer medical teams to developing countries to perform free corrective surgery on disfigured children. In the United States, many common birth defects are treated surgically in...
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Alice Waters
Owner of Chez Panisse, "the nation's most widely-acclaimed restaurant," Alice Waters led a culinary revolution that has transformed modern cooking. She first became inspired by great food and the culture surrounding it on a trip to France at age 19. After earning a degree in French Cultural…
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Fred Smith
Fred Smith, Chairman and CEO of Federal Express Corporation, is known as the "father of the overnight delivery business." A Marine Corps veteran who once teetered on the verge of bankruptcy, he is one of American business's greatest success stories. As an undergraduate at Yale, Fred Smith wrote a...
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Richard Meier
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Richard Meier studied architecture at Cornell University, where he met the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright. Meier worked for the New York firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and then for the celebrated modern architect Marcel Breuer before starting his own practice in...
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Vincent Scully
Vincent J. Scully is Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and one of the world's leading architectural historians and critics. He entered Yale at age 16, earned his degree in 1940, his master's in 1947, and his doctorate in 1949. Scully taught art...
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Sumner Redstone
Sumner Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein) is a media magnate who owns and controls the National Amusements theater chain, and is the majority owner of CBS Corporation, Viacom, the MTV Network, BET, and the Paramount Pictures film studio. Redstone attended the Boston Latin School, where he...
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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson is the Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group of Companies, a global publishing, aviation and entertainment conglomerate of over 400 companies based in London, England. He started his empire and $4 billion personal fortune from scratch when he was 15 years old. Branson built...
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Bill Gates
In the last decades of the 20th century, a revolution in information technology transformed commerce and consciousness, just as the printing press transformed civilization 500 years before. These advances in computer technology and communications would have remained the province of professional...
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Helmut Jahn
Hailed as "the flamboyant bad boy of post-modern architecture," Helmut Jahn emerged in the late 1960s as the most brilliant architect of his generation. Born in a farming village near Nuremberg, Germany, he graduated form the Technische Hochschule in Munich and then entered the Illinois Institute...
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Colin Powell 1990
Millions of Americans have been inspired by the life story of Colin Powell, from his boyhood in the South Bronx as the son of Jamaican immigrants, through a distinguished military career, to his term as Secretary of State. General Powell was the first African-American and the youngest officer…
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The Academy of Achievement presents a selection ofextraordinary men and women who have defied expectations, brokenboundaries, and made history around the world. Their words andtheir example are an inspiration to us all.
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