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Hi, everyone. It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to Work in Progress. Friends, fans, listeners, and internet pals.

This is an episode you all have been waiting for and telling me you've been waiting for.

We are finally joined on Work in Progress this week by none other than Katarina Scorsone.

She is one of those rare performers who brings a stunningly present emotional intelligence to every role.

She's best known for her more than a decade-spanning turn is Dr. Amelia Shepard on Grey's Anatomy.

She has built a gorgeous career playing complicated, honest, fiercely human women, characters

who fall apart and rebuild and somehow emerge even more whole than before.

But her story off-screen is just as compelling.

Katerina was born and raised in Toronto in a very creative household, one of five siblings.

She's been acting professionally as a child, but took a little left turn thinking she might

actually be a doctor, only to boomerang all the way back and become one on TV.

Her parents were academics who also ran homeless shelters. So from a

really early age, she's had a keen sense of life's complexities and how important it is for us to

show up in service of each other. She has managed to merge all of her passions in such a meaningful

way on and off screen. And perhaps off screen, she's taken on her most meaningful role of all, as a mother of three,

and now an incredible advocate for disability inclusion, drawing from her experience, raising

one of her three daughters with Down syndrome.

She chooses to use her platform to promote greater understanding, to end

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