rEvolutionary Woman

Tes Silverman
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Tes talks with women activists and volunteers from around the world to tell their stories and the stories of the women they work with.

  1. 12/18/2025

    Season 9 Ep. 13: Grace Robinson- Product Manager for IBM

    Grace Robinson is a Java Champion and Product Manager at IBM, having been at IBM since graduating from University with a Degree in Biology. Grace enjoys bringing a varied perspective to her projects and using her knowledge of biological systems to simplify complex software patterns. Previously, as a developer advocate for 8 years, Grace built POC’s, demos, sample applications and tutorials. Now, as Product Manager for the dev experience of IBM’s Java portfolio, she’s combining her experience and passion for development with her MBA and leadership skills to help drive the strategy and future direction of IBM’s Java tools. To learn more about Grace Robinson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gljrobinson/

    37 min

  2. 12/04/2025

    Season 9 Ep. 12: Jacqueline Ackerman- Director of Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI)

    Jacqueline Ackerman is Director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. WPI believes that gender matters in philanthropy, and that solving the world’s complex problems requires perspective, leadership and generosity from women and men. Jacqueline’s work centers on moving the institute’s research into action, delivering insights to donors, fundraisers and sector leaders that grow women’s giving and deepen fundraisers’ engagements with female donors. Over the last decade, Jacqueline has led WPI’s research agenda, including serving as primary author on most of WPI’s research reports. Jacqueline joined the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in 2012 after earning a Master of Public Affairs from the Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington. She was raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and resides in Bethesda, MD. To learn more about Jacqueline Ackerman and Women’s Philanthropy Institute: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelineackerman https://www.instagram.com/womensphilanthropy https://www.facebook.com/womensphilanthropyinstitute https://www.linkedin.com/company/womensphilanthropy

    34 min

  3. 11/20/2025

    Season 9 EP. 11: Michelle Petties- TEDx Speaker, Food Story Coach, Writer

    Michelle Petties is a TEDx speaker, Food Story coach, and author of the award-winning memoir Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict. She reveals how emotional wounds, cultural expectations, and personal history—not hunger—often shape how we manage food. After battling emotional overeating for decades and gaining and losing over 700 pounds, Michelle discovered that the key to lasting weight loss wasn’t another diet—it was rewriting the stories behind her eating. With a background in media sales and leadership at companies like Radio One, Disney/ABC, and NPR/PBS member stations, Michelle now uses storytelling as a tool for transformation. Through workshops, retreats, and her ebook Mind Over Meals, she helps others uncover their food truths, rewire their thinking, and create lasting change from the inside out. To learn more about Michelle Petties: TEDx Talk, A Food Addict's Lesson: Confusion. Clarity. Recovery. Please comment, like, and share it with your network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLr53XlIV4 Get your signed copy of Leaving Large: The Stories of a Food Addict, https://Leavinglarge.com Subscribe to My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIbMxXOSCNH--MCNru4WuLw Follow me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/iambrandnewnow Follow me on Facebook: https://facebook.com/iambrandnewnow Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-petties/ Read my essays:https://vocal.media/humans/loving-your-self Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@iambrandnewnow?lang=en

    42 min

  4. 11/06/2025

    Season 9 EP. 10: Aspen Noonan- CEO of Elevate Holistics

    Aspen Noonan is a young mom, entrepreneur and the CEO of Elevate Holistics - a rapidly growing telemedicine company making medical marijuana more accessible across the U.S. Starting from the ground up,  Aspen began by taking patient calls and handling support, eventually growing the business into a multi-state operation and stepping into the role of CEO.  With a background in health sciences and a passion for patient education, Aspen has helped thousands of people find natural relief through plant medicine. Her story is rooted in grit, heart, and a mission to modernize healthcare with compassion and accessibility for all. To learn more about Aspen Noonan and Elevate Holistics:  X - @elevateholistic https://www.linkedin.com/in/aspen-noonan-242545110 YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@elevateholistics9102/posts

    28 min

  5. 10/23/2025

    Season 9 EP. 9: Christina Irene- Invisible Disability Speaker and Author

    Christina Irene is a disability and diversity speaker who works with corporations, not-for-profit organizations, government entities, and educational institutions all over the world. Her clients include Target, Redfin, Maersk, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Navy, National Credit Union Administration, FINRA, MITRE, the Brookings Institution, Johns Hopkins University, Technology University of Eindhoven, Penn State Health, Pueblo of Jemez, and many more. Using a lived-experience approach, she invented the Splat system of communication and published a series of books on it, including Talking Splat: Communicating About Hidden Disabilities, Splatvocate: Supporting People With Hidden Disabilities, and Spactivity Book: Self-Care and Carefree Distractions for Adults with Hidden Disabilities. Christina’s past careers include high school English and theater teacher and nationally-touring stand-up comedian. She lives with physical, cognitive, and mental health disabilities. To learn more about Christina Irene: Website: ChristinaIrene.com YouTube: @ChristinaIreneInspires (or use the url ChristinaIreneTube.com which redirects to my channel) Instagram: @TalkingSplat (all Splat-related content) and @InstaChristinaIrene  TikTok: @TalkingSplat Facebook: @SplattiePage (Splat-related content) and @ChristinaIreneInspires

    42 min

  6. 10/09/2025

    Season 9 EP. 8: Elizabeth Becker- Author and Journalist

    Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning American author and journalist best known for her work in Cambodia and Vietnam. Her singular coverage of Cambodia under Pol Pot is the basis of the French feature film “Rendezvous Avec Pol Pot” (Meeting With Pol Pot in English) that opened in Cannes and has received multiple awards. She began reporting in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Since then she has covered international affairs for five decades including as a New York Times correspondent, the Senior Foreign Editor at National Public Radio and Washington Post correspondent. She was part of the Times’ team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of 9/11. She won two DuPont Columbia awards for NPR coverage of the Rwanda genocide and South Africa’s first democratic election. She has reported from all continents, including posts in Phnom Penh and Paris. She is the author of five books including YOU DON’T BELONG HERE: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War (2021) which tells the hidden story of women who covered the Vietnam War. A best seller, it has been praised as a masterwork. The book received Harvard’s Goldsmith Award, the Sperber book Prize and was named the military book of the year by Foreign Affairs. Her 2013 book “OVERBOOKED: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism,” also a best seller was an Amazon book of the year and was hailed by Arthur Former as "required reading" about the future of global tourism. In 2019 Conde Nast Traveler named Becker one of the people who has changed how the world travels because of her book and one of the most powerful women in the travel world for emphasizing a conservationist ethic in tourism. She is the author of the now classic “WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, “ originally published in 1986, won a Robert F. Kennedy award. The movies “Rendezvous Avec Pol Pot” and “Bophana” by acclaimed Cambodian director Rithy Panh were based on this book. In 2015 she testified as an expert witness at the international war crimes tribunal of the senior Khmer Rouge leaders. She was a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, holds a degree from the University of Washington and studied language at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthaan in Agra, India. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of the Oxfam America Advocacy Fund. To learn more about Elizabeth Becker: Website: https://elizabethbecker.com/ IG: ehb47 Author of: YOU DON’T BELONG HERE: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War OVERBOOKED: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution

    38 min

  7. 09/25/2025

    Season 9 EP. 7: Karen Wang Diggs- Entrepreneur and Author

    Karen describes herself as a ‘history hound.’ History has fascinated her since she was a child, and she has always been obsessed with uncovering the truth hidden between the pages of history books. Behind every date and every significant event in history, there is a catalog of untold stories, and she’s always been passionate about digging them up and understanding the people behind the events. Themes of social justice, gender equality, and race equality infuse every aspect of her work. As a woman, Karen is passionate about discovering and sharing the injustices faced by women throughout history. She wants to empower women and girls to change the future and strive for absolute parity between the sexes. Her work is dedicated to sharing lesser-told stories to show the world that strong women have always been, and always will be, crucial to the future of the world. Karen was born in Hong Kong but grew up in Hawaii. She was raised by a single mother whose strength and resilience fed into her passion for uncovering the stories of strong women throughout history. Karen loves reading and enjoys indulging in her book addiction. In addition to writing or having her nose in a book, Karen is also a professional chef and nutritionist and is continuing her education in Anthropology. To learn more about Karen Wang Diggs: IG @herstoryinhx FB https://www.facebook.com/herstoryinhistorynow TikTok: herstoryinhx5 Website and to order her book: https://www.herstoryinhistory.com/

    56 min

  8. 09/11/2025

    Season 9 EP. 6: Janet Collard- Dancer, Choreographer, Performer

    Janet Collard is a dance performing artist, choreographer and movement director originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. As a professional contemporary dancer, Janet has performed for many companies and choreographers including AXIS Dance Company, Nancy Karp and Dancers, Gerald Casel Dance and Katie Faulkner’s little seismic dance company. As a choreographer, she has worked with Korsa Musical Theater Company, Shotgun Players, Berkeley Playhouse, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Throckmorton Theater and others. In 2018, she premiered her dance theater solo show Performing Valeska based on the life of avant-garde actor and dancer Valeska Gert. In 2019 she toured this production to different festivals across the country and was artist in residence at the University of Rochester in New York. She recently completed an MA in Dance Philosophy and History at Roehampton University in London. While in the UK she presented her dissertation and performed a lecture on dance reconstruction and dance reenactment at the Theater, Dance and Performance Conference at the University of Leeds (remotely). She also participated in a living history performance at the Old Operating Theater in London. She currently lives in Northern California and continues to create choreography and teach movement for artists as well as Pilates and Gyrotonic. To learn more about Janet Collard: Website: www.janetcollard.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f4CYHMGTlI

    27 min
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Tes talks with women activists and volunteers from around the world to tell their stories and the stories of the women they work with.

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  • Creator
    Tes Silverman
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    174
  • Rating
    Clean
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