Ep 176. Marisa Porges: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, Resilient Women
“To effectively embrace the opportunities that will come during the decades ahead, our kids need a new set of twenty-first-century skills.”
Marisa Porges
Dr. Marisa Porges is known for her work on leadership, education, and national security. She is currently head of The Baldwin School, a 130-year-old all-girls school outside of Philadelphia renowned for academic excellence and for preparing girls to be leaders and changemakers. Prior to joining Baldwin in 2016, Dr. Porges served in the Obama White House; was a visiting fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and at the Council on Foreign Relations, where her research focused on worldwide counterterrorism efforts; and served in the US Navy as one of eight female aviators in an air wing of about two hundred. She graduated from Harvard University in and earned her doctorate from King’s College London. Her new book is What Girls Need: How to Raise Bold, Courageous, and Resilient Women.
In this episode, Stew and Marisa discuss the unique challenges educators and parents everywhere are currently facing during the pandemic and the resurgent awareness of what we must do to pursue a just society. They talk about the perennial difficulties of empowering young women and helping to ensure they not only have equal access to educational and job opportunities, but also to the support they need to thrive and achieve in all aspects of life. Marisa shares some of the many practical tips from her new book that anyone who’s interested in teaching girls how to be strong and adaptable can use.
Here then is an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation. What opportunity might you be able to create, however small, for a girl you know to experience the growth the results from expressing herself and increasing her belief that she can control her own destiny? Write to Stew to let him know: friedman@wharton.upenn.edu, or connect with him on LinkedIn. While you’re at it, share your thoughts with him on this episode and your ideas for people you’d like to hear on future shows.
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