Katherine Acey, 65 years old, is a life-long radical social change activist who has stood up, with love, to fight intersecting injustices, whether they’re about gender, race, class or other fissures. She was the Executive Director of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice for over 20 years. She’s been an unstoppable force for creating funding and attention for LGBTQ priorities for many decades and, most recently, was the Executive Director of the GRIOT Circle, a people of color LGBTQ elders organization. Now, a senior research fellow at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Katherine is exploring a new topic, “What’s Age Got to Do With It?”. Want to find out? Listen to our interview with Katherine now!
Sandra Garcia Betancourt, 60 years old, is a writer whose work appeared most recently in Abriendo Caminos, an anthology of Puerto Rican women writers in New York. She is currently the Director of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling in Harlem. She was the founding Director of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NOMAA) in Washington Heights, a high-heeled union organizer, a poet and women’s rights activist. From her first spontaneous trip from Puerto Rico to California in her 20s to her unplanned transition to arts administrator in her 50s, Sandra’s free-spirited life and story show us how staying attuned to the moment delivers a steady stream of surprises, even when you’re sitting on a couch with a broken ankle watching TV.
Mallika Dutt, 55 years old, is a leading innovator in human rights, multimedia, and culture change. She is the founder, president, and CEO of Breakthrough (http://us.breakthrough.tv/) and shares her cutting-edge approach to transformation through speaking, writing, commentary and game-changing multimedia campaigns. Born in India and based in the U.S. since she was 18 years old, Mallika is now forging a new path on her life journey: she’s been exploring energy medicine and healing as a way to transform individuals and the old myths that constrain us. As Mallika says, her passion is to work with others to create entirely new stories that dream new worlds into being.
For more on Mallika see www.mallikadutt.com
To watch the first music video that Mallika produced, check out Mann Ke Mannjeere. You’ll get goose bumps!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4-l84EKRc
Meet Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler - Two Old Bitches (from New York City) as they kick off their show, and talk about how you, too, can nurture your bitchy self. Also, there's wine.