More to Her Story: The Podcast
Journalist Sarah Little interviews thought leaders and trailblazers to discuss complex challenges facing women and girls worldwide.
Episodes
July 28, 2025 • 51 mins
Leyla Hussein is a Somali-British psychotherapist, activist, and survivor of female genital mutilation. She is the founder of The Dahlia Project, the UK’s first therapeutic support service dedicated to survivors of FGM. She’s also a dear friend, and I am grateful to have her as this month’s guest on the show.
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June 10, 2025 • 25 mins
As part of our In Focus series, we examine the impact of U.S. global aid cuts on women and girls around the world.
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June 3, 2025 • 25 mins
In our In Focus series, we investigate the use of mass sexual violence as a weapon of war in Sudan.
Executive Producer: Francesca Gilardi Quadrio Curzio
Sound Design: Andrija Klaric
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March 6, 2025 • 33 mins
Many of you know Bellamy Young as Mellie Grant from the series Scandal, but beyond the screen, she’s a passionate advocate for global humanitarian issues. As an ambassador for CARE, Bellamy has been deeply involved in advocating for women and girls worldwide, using her platform to amplify stories that often go unheard. Today, she joins More to Her Story: The Podcast.
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December 10, 2024 • 25 mins
Michelle Nunn leads more than 8,000 people working in 121 countries to save lives, defeat poverty, and achieve social justice. In her nine years as President and CEO of CARE, the organization has impacted more than 53 million people around the world. In this conversation, Michelle and I discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing women and girls today, and what CARE is doing to tackle gender-based violence in conflict and b...
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October 14, 2024 • 42 mins
Melissa Fleming is the Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications at the United Nations. Previously, she served as the Head of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency. Melissa is the author of A Hope More Powerful than the Sea and host of the podcast Awake at Night. This month, we delve into what it takes to be the UN’s Chief Communicator at a time of rising global conflicts and backsliding women’s ri...
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August 26, 2024 • 34 mins
Mary Maker is a South Sudanese refugee and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador. She is also an actress, a fashion lover, and a writer. After fleeing her war-torn country as a child, Mary found safety at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where she was able to attend school. Today, Mary is a champion for girls’ education as a vital tool for rebuilding lives and empowering a generation of girls wh...
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June 3, 2024 • 41 mins
Yasmine Mohammed is a Canadian human rights activist and author of Egyptian and Palestinian descent. Yasmine escaped from a forced, abusive marriage to an Al-Qaeda operative and became an advocate for women's rights through her non-profit organization Free Hearts, Free Minds. She is the author of Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam. In this episode, Yasmine shares her remarkable story and unique perspective with th...
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April 30, 2024 • 50 mins
Paul O’Brien is the Executive Director at Amnesty International USA. Over his career, he has done human rights research and advocacy in more than 50 countries, including most recently, Mexico, Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. He lived for 10 years in Africa, working for local and international organizations, and for 5 years in Afghanistan, where he served as an advisor to the President. Before Amnesty, Paul co-led Oxfam’s advocac...
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March 20, 2024 • 45 mins
Leslie T. Chang has written about women in the developing world for two decades. Her reporting method is to immerse herself in the daily lives of ordinary women to find stories that are often unknown to the outside world.
Leslie lived in China for a decade as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, focusing on stories that explored how socioeconomic change was transforming institutions and individuals.
In 2011, Leslie moved ...
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December 27, 2023 • 50 mins
Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein is a Jordanian former diplomat and the President and CEO of the International Peace Institute. He is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania and served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014-2018. Zeid is a member of The Elders, an independent group of world leaders and human rights advocates brought together b...
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December 12, 2023 • 33 mins
Masuma Ahuja is a journalist who calls three countries home and reports on people, power, and politics worldwide. Her work focuses primarily on women’s and girls’ lives. She is currently the Head of Freeda UK; previously, she worked at CNN and the Washington Post. She also spent years freelancing, reporting on women’s and girls’ lives worldwide for places like the BBC, The Washington Post’s The Lily, and Vice. Her debut book, Girlh...
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November 15, 2023 • 3 mins
24-year-old Shereen Sabbah from Gaza shares audio diaries for More to Her Story.
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October 6, 2023 • 36 mins
Natashya Gutierrez is the President of Rappler, the Phillippine’s leading digital news company. She is the former Editor-in-Chief of VICE Asia-Pacific. She has spent more than a decade leading newsrooms and covering women’s rights, politics, and disinformation with a focus on Asia. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @natashya_g
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September 23, 2023 • 32 mins
Jane Ferguson is an Irish-British journalist, special correspondent for PBS NewsHour, and contributor to The New Yorker. Jane has reported from warzones across the world, with a particular focus on the Middle East. She is a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University and recently published author of the memoir No Ordinary Assignment. It was an honor to have Jane on the show.
You can follow Jane on Instagram @janieferg and Twitter @...
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August 28, 2023 • 23 mins
Shudufhadzo Musida is a South African model and activist who was crowned Miss South Africa 2020. She is a dedicated advocate and spokeswoman for mental health awareness and women’s rights and was recently appointed a regional champion for the United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency.
Follow Shudu on Instagram @ShudufhadzoMusida or Twitter @abigailmusida
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August 7, 2023 • 38 mins
Isobel Yeung is an Emmy-award-winning long-form documentary correspondent. She has covered a wide variety of stories concerning major global issues such as world conflicts, the criminal justice system, women’s rights, mental health, and sexual consent.
In this episode, we dive deep into life in and out of the field, the current state of women’s rights in Afghanistan, and other things. I appreciated Isobel’s openness and honesty a...
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June 29, 2023 • 45 mins
Rothna Begum is the Senior Women’s Rights Researcher at Human Rights Watch, focusing on discrimination and violence against women and girls in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She has conducted research and advocacy on the abuse and exploitation of migrant domestic workers, domestic violence against women and girls, child marriage, sexual violence in conflict, discriminatory family laws, and male guardianship policie...
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April 30, 2023 • 28 mins
Chanel Contos has sparked an international movement that has led to mandating consent education in every school across Australia. The 24-year-old founded Teach Us Consent, a petition for consent to be included in Australian schools’ sex education. Chanel is on the BBC’s list of 100 influential and inspiring women of 2022, and her book on consent will be coming out later this year. I was honored to have her on the show this month.
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March 8, 2023 • 27 mins
Mary Robinson served as the first woman President of Ireland. She also served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Climate Change. She is a founding member and current Chair of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders formed by Nelson Mandela to tackle the world's most pressing problems.
This International Women’s Day, it was an honor to have Mary on th...
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