Taboo, Power & Possibility | Nadya Okamoto
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Nadya Okamoto is a 21-year-old activist (https://www.instagram.com/nadyaokamoto), Harvard student, Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD (https://www.period.org/), the largest youth-run NGO in women’s health and one of the fastest growing organizations of its kind in the US. She is also co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Gen-Z marketing agency, JUV Consulting. Her debut book, Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement (https://amzn.to/2mGr1h0), is a call to end period poverty and stigma through service, education, and advocacy. Okamoto was named to InStyle Magazine’s “The Badass 50: Meet the Women Who Are Changing the World." Astonishingly accomplished at a young age, Nadya's driven to make a difference, fueled in no small part by her own deep trauma, as she describes living through homelessness, abuse, sexual assault, racism and exclusion. But, it was her experience, befriending and hearing stories of homeless women in Portland that would lead her to found PERIOD, devote herself to giving voice and aid to the voiceless and launch a movement along the way. And, she's just getting started!
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| 0:58.5 | My guest today in Nadia Okamoto is the founder and executive director of period, which is an |
| 1:08.2 | organization she founded at the age of 16 while in high school has now become the largest |
| 1:14.2 | youth run NGO in women's health and one of the fastest growing ones here in the United |
| 1:19.6 | States with over 600 campus chapters in all 50 states and 30 countries. And while |
| 1:26.1 | running that foundation, Nadia also headed off to study at Harvard where in 2017 she then |
| 1:32.1 | decided to also run for office in Cambridge and while she didn't win her campaign team, |
| 1:38.2 | it really historic waves mobilizing incredible numbers of young people on the ground and at |
| 1:42.6 | polls. And along the way she published a book period power and manifesto for the menstrual |
| 1:49.0 | movement with Simon Schuster and co-founded New York City Gen Z marketing agency, |
| 1:55.0 | the youth consulting where she's now also the chief brand officer while running her foundation |
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