16: To Know Them is to Love Them - Race Women Project w/ Maya Millett pt.2

Bagels and Plantains

Pivot! Maya Millett talks about her new project, Race Women and the stories we're not hearing in the history books (or seeing on the screen).

Join us as we peel back the onion that is black women in history on episode 16, pt. 2 w/ Maya Millett

"For five years Maya Millet was the senior and later executive book editor at StoryCorps, the national oral history organization featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. Maya worked on three StoryCorps books: All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps (2012), Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from StoryCorps (2013), and Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work (2016).

These anthologies, celebrating the lives of everyday people, were published-published (The Penguin Press) and went on to become New York Times bestsellers. Maya also served as the executive producer of StoryCorps Animation, producing nearly 20 animated short films based on StoryCorps broadcasts, for which her team earned the Peabody and Columbia-duPont awards, and two News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations..."

• See Maya @ The Well-Read Black Girl Fest in Brooklyn, St Francis College, November 2nd
• Find Maya @: https://www.mayamillett.com/
• About Race Women: https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/black-feminists-race-women/
• Follow Race Women & Maya on the Gram: https://www.instagram.com/race_women/
• StoryCorps: https://storycorps.org/

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