BookTube — Season 1, Episode 5: Melinda Gates: Three barriers that hold women back
Talk • 30 min • 1 season, 18 episodes
Episode synopsis
Philanthropist Melinda Gates opens up to share her most personal stories and experiences that lead to her calling to help women and families in need in her new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. She is joined by guest moderator and Emmy award winning actress Uzo Aduba (Orange is the New Black), Ingrid Nilson (Ingrid Nilson), and BookTubers Ariel Bissett (Ariel Bisset) and Sasha Alsberg (ABookUtopia) to discuss the importance of women’s empowerment on the global stage, the start of her career, and how she stays grounded.
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Personalities in YouTube's literary space join renowned authors like Margaret Atwood and Malcolm Gladwell in a conversation about books.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Michelle Obama on the Importance of Swerving
- E2Why Malcolm Gladwell used to get pulled over by the Police
- E3Why Margaret Atwood waited 30 years to write a Handmaid's Tale Sequel
- E4Why James Patterson used to hate books, and what changed his mind
- E6Bryan Stevenson: From the courtroom to Hollywood
- E7Jacqueline Woodson: Lying in service of truth
- E8David Sedaris: On Being An Open Book
- E9What Best-Selling Authors are Reading At Home
- E10Meaning and Resilience
- E11The Bush Sisters: Our Wild and Wonderful Life
- E12What Animals Teach Us About Ourselves
- E13Jason Reynolds: Honesty, Joy, and Anti-Racism