Women We Should Know By LESLEY MICHAELS
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About The Episode
During several hours in a bomb shelter:
“I was putting on my reporter’s cap…I almost forgot to notice anything other than I am following my profession, I’m observing.”
(Isa, if this is too long, let me know and I’ll adjust.)
Program Notes
Having the opportunity to hear about Mitzi’s amazing and courageous trek to Ukraine inspired and fascinated me on multiple levels. I got quite a chuckle out of the fact that although approved by the US government to travel as a war correspondent at age 70, NATO deemed her too old. Never one to be stopped, at 81 Mitzi accepted an invitation from General Nebytov of Kyiv Regional Police. Like everyone else, I’ve seen the reports, written and filmed, of the trials of Ukraine’s people, and yet hearing the perspective of a female, American war correspondent filled in so many blanks and has left me with a profoundly increased respect for the courage and tenacity of both Mitzi and the people of Ukraine.
Mitzi Perdue BIO
Mitzi is an anti-human trafficking advocate, a former rice farmer, and the past president of the 40,000-member American Agri-Women. In the 1990s and early 2000s her nationally syndicated column, “The Environment and You,” was the most widely syndicated environmental column in the US. Recently she’s written Relentless, a biography of Mark Victor Hansen, the Chicken Soup for the Soul guy. Royalties for Relentless will go to helping combat human trafficking. Contact her at mitzi@ULETgroup.org