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Breaking Through
Breaking Through By Moms Rising is a one hour, once-a-week program. Breaking Through covers the top topics facing our nation from a perspective that corporate media too often ignores: The perspective of real people and real experts. We take an in-depth look at how the issues that matter impact you, your neighborhood, and your community--along with what you can do to make a difference. Listen, learn, grow, change the world."
About the Host: Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is the Executive Director/CEO and Co-Founder of Moms Rising. Kristin is also a frequent public speaker, and an award-winning author of books, including Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World, The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy and The Motherhood Manifesto, which she co-authored with Moms Rising co-founder and board President Joan Blades. Kristin has also written articles on a variety of topics, including women and families, public policy, motherhood, economic security, equality, health, civic engagement, and new feminism.
Kristin's awards for writing include the Society of Professional Journalists' Excellence in Journalism award for magazine writing, the Ernesta Drinker Ballard Award, as well as an award from the Independent Book Publishers Association. She’s also been deeply involved in grassroots engagement and policy analysis for more than two decades. She is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and has been interviewed about issues related to women and mothers, family economic security, and grassroots organizing by numerous international, national and local news outlets, including, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Today Show, MSNBC, Good Morning America, NOW with David Brancaccio, To the Contrary and BBC World Service, and more.
This week we dive into a new study about how people can (and can’t) get access to paid family/medical leave in every state and how to get national coverage; we hear an update about the fight for a care infrastructure and why it matters to everyone; we tackle the importance of conversation to combat loneliness and to save our democracy; and we cover a powerful deliver of stories to every single member of Congress and how your experiences can build change.
*Special guests include: Sharita Gruberg, National Partnership for Women & Families, @npwf; Josephine Kalipeni, Family Values at Work, @FmlyValuesWork; Joan Blades, Living Room Conversations, @LivingRoomConvo; and Felicia Burnett, MomsRising, @MomsRising
