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Desi Eddy, a customer service representative at Thaden Field, and Mary Katherine McKinley, director of the Fly OZ Club based at Thaden Field, spoke with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams in the airport lounge at Thaden Field in Bentonville about how the airport and the Fly OZ Club are co-presenters of the celebration of globally-observed Women in Aviation Week.
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Ten Black women business owners will graduate from the 2023 Women’s Economic Mobility Hub in October. Grantees in the cohort receive $5,000 and attend a six-month training program. Two of the cohort’s grantees are based Northwest Arkansas and Ozarks at Large’s Anna Pope met with one of them earlier this week.
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On today's show, a grantee in the Women's Economic Mobility Hub speaks about her business and experience in the program. Plus, the Bentonville Public Library expansion is underway, local music and a conversation with current GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson about his efforts to qualify for the first party debate.
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The all-volunteer mutual aid collective Ozark Circle for Choice offers discreet no-cost assistance to Arkansans seeking legal medication and surgical abortions. The nonprofit Arkansas Abortion Support Network, based in central Arkansas, also provides safe access to comprehensive reproductive health services. Both organizations, however, were forced to pivot in their mission, after the U.S. Supreme Court one year ago overturned the constitutional right to abortion, unleashing Conservative-majority states like Arkansas to enact trigger abortion bans.
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The next Women of Oz Sunset Summit in Bentonville will again be an all-women weekend to explore mountain biking, empowerment and more.
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This spring we’re sharing the new podcast Inspirando el futuro on the show. Producer Wendy Echeverria explains what led her to make the series.
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Maliya Gurel will be among those representing Arkansas next month at the National History Day National Competition in Washington D.C. Her documentary about Louise Thaden, an aviation pioneer and Bentonville native, won first place in its division in Arkansas.
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Courtney Lanning said it took 50 years to bring "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" to the screen. She said the wait was worth it.
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Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit organization in Los Angeles designed to help women transition from incarceration to a better life. She recently visited Northwest Arkansas.
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On the latest episode of "Undisciplined," we hear from Allison Parker, a professor of history at the University of Delaware and a biographer of Mary Church Terrell, a black women's activist whose career spanned many decades.