Work While You Have the Light

Work While You Have the Light

By Phoebe Rubin and Erica TanamachiSociety & Culture
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Work While You Have the Light episodes

  • Dr. Selma Holo - Museum Executive Director, 78
    Today we get the pleasure to speak with Selma Holo. We met Selma two years ago for our documentary and have been following her extraordinary career as Executive Director of USC Museums, a position she has held since 1981. We’ve watched her create and implement various exhibitions for the Fisher Museum while gracefully juggling the many other responsibilities her job demands. She is Full Professor of Art History and Director of the International Museum Institute at USC. In addition, Selma is also a published author. Her first two books are about the relationship of art museums to evolving democracies in Spain and Mexico both translated into Spanish. And her latest books have become important handbooks for strategic planning in museums. Selma earned her Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara and her BA at Northwestern University. Selma is 78 years old.

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    37 min
  • Mei-Lee Ney - Financial Advisor, 74
    Mei-Lee Ney is truly a self-made woman, and her life story is an inspiration. Mei-Lee is president of Richard Ney & Associates, an investment advisory firm in Pasadena which she joined in 1973. She was the business partner of her husband, Richard Ney, author of three books on the stock market, two of which she edited. She also was co-creator and editor of “The Ney Report,” an investment newsletter published from 1976 to 1999. Mei-Lee has donated millions of dollars to various charities and sits on the Board of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, USC Pacific Asia Museum, The Huntington Library, Art Museums and Botanical Gardens and the Huntington Hospital. Mei-Lee is also chair of the Board of Trustees of Otis College Art and Design. She is an avid reader, art collector and master chef. Mei-Lee was born in Shanghai, China and came to the United States when she was two-years-old. Mei-Lee is 74.

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    26 min
  • Dot Fisher-Smith - Artist, 92

    Dot Fisher-Smith is an artist, journalist, activist, buddhist, group leader and teacher in Ashland, Oregon. Dot was the main subject of a feature documentary released in 2010 called: AN ORDINARY LIFE. Dot’s art is simple in conception--colored pencils, ink and pastels drawn on worn canvas from her meditation yurt--and yet, the precision of her lines coupled with the organic process in which she creates is next to genius. However, Dot is perhaps even more known for her activism--pictured in 2003 on the cover of Earth First, nude, in front of a giant slice from a slaughtered ancient fir tree. There is no one on Earth like Dot. Dot is 92 and continues to create art, write and inspire by using her bicycle for local transportation.

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    29 min
  • Dr. Carol Miller - Physician, 72
    Today we’ll be talking with Dr. Carol Miller. Dr. Miller specializes in Neonatal-Perinatal medicine. She is the Professor Emeritus at the UCSF School of Medicine in the department of pediatrics. Her special interests include the primary care of infants and children with high risk conditions. In the community, she is the medical consultant for the Marin Department of Health and Human Services under the division of Maternal and Child health. She is also the co-founder and consultant for Healthy Families Marin Home Visiting. Carol is 72.

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    37 min
  • Judy Brooks - Producer, 74
    Judy is the founder of Lightbridge Media which she launched with her husband in 1998. They created and produced a series for PBS called HEALING QUEST that aired for 13 seasons. Judy produced and directed a 6 part video series about domestic violence called BROKEN WINGS. Judy produced and hosted THE INTUITIVE CONNECTION, a weekly radio show in San Francisco. Currently, Judy co-hosts and produces a weekly radio program and podcast on i heart radio. Most recently, Judy has a new podcast called - WILD WOMAN WISDOM. Judy is 74.

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    18 min

About Work While You Have the Light

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Conversations with working women over seventy who refuse to be stopped by outdated assumptions of the roles of older women in society today. We discuss gender, equity, ageism, race and…