2020-02-20
1 小时 8 分钟My guest today, Jamia Wilson.
She's an activist, writer, speaker.
Born in the US, she then spent a large part of her youth in Saudi Arabia before returning to attend high school and then college back in the States, and then launched a really powerful career in writing, editing and advocacy.
Now, as the director of the feminist press at the City University of New York, which is this kind of legendary institution, and the former VP of programs at the Women's Media center, she's kind of become a leading voice on women's rights issues.
For over a decade, her work has appeared in so many different places, from New York Times, Today show, CNN, Elle, BBC, rookie, Refinery 29, just too many places to list.
Jamia is also the author of a whole bunch of books, Young, Gifted in Black, the introduction and oral history in together we rise behind the scenes at the protest, turn around the world, step into your power 23 lessons on how to live your best life and so many others.
And she's also the co author for Roadmap for revolutionaries, resistance, advocacy and activism.
She's just an incredible, big hearted, fiercely committed, intelligent human being on a mission to give voice to ideas and communities and also step more fully into her own creative journey in her quest to become fully expressed.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So you grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, or somewhere around there, right?
Right.
Or first four, five, six years.
Yeah.
Sounds like your family.
You were sort of introduced to the world of being socially conscious, that there's a history in your parents, like your mom, your grandparents, that really was just a part of the DNA of your family and who you are and what you were about from a really young age.
Definitely.
I mean, I've been thinking about it a lot because so much has changed in that side of the family over the past year.
My mom passed away last year and Christmas.
And then right before she passed away, one of her uncles who was kind of integral into shaping her past, and her mom passed about three years before that.