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#15Girls Listening Party With KCRW + 826LA

#15Girls Listening Party With KCRW + 826LA
NPR Generation Listen
By: Joanna Pawlowska

Girls and women of all ages and backgrounds came together to listen to powerful stories about the lives of 15 girls around the world, followed by a conversation led by NPR’s All Things Considered co-host, Kelly McEvers.

The #15Girls project is an NPR editorial series that aired across NPR shows and digital platforms in October 2015. Generation Listen collaborated with the NPR Global Health Team to host a series of accompanying listening parties in DC and LA.

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Last night we collaborated with our friends at KCRW and 826LA for a very special evening in West LA: to gather around the “radio” (or in this case, an audio player and some plants) to explore the lives of girls around the world with an #NPRListeningParty.

The evening included 30 girls and women from different backgrounds, multiple countries, and various walks of life. We began the evening reflecting on what bound us together as women, and each shared a story about a woman who has influenced our lives in a profound way.

NPR host Kelly McEvers then introdruced the series and featured stories: #15Girls: Teens Taking Control and Changing Their Fate, that would transport us to El Salvador and Zambia as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old girls.

The first story was riveting and intense, and we were glad to be able to reflect on it together. Kelly was the lead reporter on the story and she told us what it was like to travel to El Salvador and uncover what was happening. We discussed which of the girls we most related to – the one that retreated or the one that fought – and explored the difference between truly living and merely surviving. We agreed that life is often about what we choose to do with what comes our way – which in our case, sitting together in Los Angeles felt like a lot of goodness.

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