SO6 Episode 02: Ilana Landsberg-Lewis - Happily Getting Older

Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 1:27 p.m.

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With \\u201cthousands of grandmothers\' voices and stories\\u201d in her head, Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, a Canadian labor and human rights lawyer and passionate women\\u2019s rights advocate, started the \\u201cGrandmothers on the Move\\u201d podcast over two years ago. Fifty-three engaging episodes later, she\\u2019s already succeeded in her goal to \\u201ckick old stereotypes to the curb\\u201d through conversations with astonishing older women. Ilana worked at the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) for many years before joining with her father in 2003 to co-found the groundbreaking Stephen Lewis Foundation to partner directly with community-based groups confronting the HIV-AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. She is an ardent mother who sees motherhood as \\u201can emotional reality and a political identity.\\u201d (Yes!) And at 55, Ilana is \\u201chappily getting older.\\u201d Don\\u2019t you want to know why?

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Check out Ilana\'s Grandmothers On The Move podcast at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grandmothers-on-the-move/id1356003135

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