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Today's Sound Perimeter reflects on the multifaceted nature of women through different musical lenses, featuring Claude Debussy and Elizabeth Maconchy.
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Magdalene Serenity House provides a safe, cost-free home for women overcoming trauma, addiction, and incarceration. Residents can stay up to two years, supported by community partnerships. Arkansas Poet Laureate Suzanne Rhodes has led poetry workshops there for over a year, inspiring healing through creative expression. Recently, Rhodes, senior operations manager Liz Simms, and resident Michah Sullivan shared insights on "Today There Have Been Lovely Things," a new poetry collection featuring resident work.
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On this week's edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal, Roby Brock interviews Erin Jernigan of Walmart Connect and nonprofit Next Up about the upcoming Walmart Women's Empowerment Summit. The event will take place on Sept. 26 and feature keynote speakers, panel discussions and audience exercises about striking a work-life balance.
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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.