Ashley C. Ford is a writer and podcast host. Her memoir, Somebody's Daughter, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.

“For the first time I felt like I had so many more choices in my life than I originally thought I had. That was my first realization that I did not just have to react to the world, that I could be intentional in the world, and just curious about what came back to me.”

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Fortune Favors the Bold

[5:00] "Roger Loves Chaz" (Roger Ebert • Sep 2012)

[11:34] The Giver (Lois Lowry • Houghton Mifflin • 1993)

[17:47] Ford's commencement speech at Ball State

[26:09] Ford's archive at Buzzfeed

[41:00] "Ashley C. Ford’s Debut Memoir ‘Somebody’s Daughter’ Finds Home at Flatiron" (Paperback Paris • 2018)

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