The podcast is not about me, so if you want to learn about me, you won’t get very far by listening to the episodes; they’re about the world’s top female-identifying athletes. That said, the more research I do and the more I learn about building trust, the more I hear that I have to put […]
Women and Public Policy Program Introducing Flame Bearers: The Women Athletes Carrying Tokyo’s Torch. My name is Jamie Mittelman. I’m a Masters of Public Administration (MPA) graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). With the support of the HKS Women and Public Policy Program’s Summer Internship Grant, I am launching a podcast spotlighting women Olympians and […]
Flame Bearers actively celebrates the current generation of women Olympians and Paralympians seeking to go to Tokyo. We have real conversations about what it means to be amongst the best female athletes in the world, and discuss the untold stories not caught on camera including the difficult daily tradeoffs and tensions many feel about their […]
Becky Sauerbrunn is on the US Women’s National Soccer Team and has been the rock of the back line for the last 8 years. She’s an Olympic gold medalist and has played in both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, won the 2015 and 2019 World Cup championships, and recently became the US Women’s National Team […]
Sanda Aldass is a Syrian refugee, living in the Netherlands with her husband (who is also her coach) and their three children. She’s a current International Olympic Committee (IOC) Refugee Athlete Scholarship-Holder, the elite group amongst which the 2021 Refugee Team will be selected. This episode spotlights what it means to be refugee, how Sanda […]
Manasi Joshi is India’s current Para-badminton World Champion and BBC India’s Sportswoman of the year. One day on her way to work, a truck ran into Manasi; hours dragged on before she received treatment, and her leg eventually needed to be amputated. In this episode, Manasi talks about losing her leg, how badminton was a […]
Lea Davison is a 2X Olympic Mountain Biker and 2016 World Championship silver medalist looking to qualify for her 3rd Olympics. Lea is unabashedly herself in all ways, including being open about her sexuality: Lea is gay. This episode takes a dive into some of Lea’s professional cycling highlights, her co-founding of Little Bellas with […]
and we’re rollin’…but what am I doing?! For my first month of “podcasting,” I was all three Kermits. My emotions fluctuated between terror (of the commitment I had gotten myself into/was now accountable for), excitement (about the incredible opportunity and support I was being given), and extreme confusion (I needed to learn a LOT of […]
Athletes are inundated with requests, so I needed to come up with a pitch and approach that would set me apart. In many ways, starting this process felt like I was starting a massive maze; it had a million different starting points (and they were all continuously moving!), but only one desired endpoint. Unfortunately for […]
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