Ep 05: Lori Sokol, Women's eNews: Coming Out for Freedom, Equality & Justice

Equality Talks: The Official ERA Podcast

Meet Lori Sokol, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Women's eNews and ERA Coaltion partner. Host Elisa Parker speaks with Lori about her personal story as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, the power of story and changing the narrative, how aboloshing patriarchy will support everyone, including men and boys, the implications of the overturn of Roe v. Wade and how women are rising up together to ensure we are all free and considered equal under constitutional law.

Hosted by nationally acclaimed radio host and Equal Voices Elisa Parker, Equality Talks bridges the intersections of equality, justice, and social activism to unify as a collective and change the status quo.

Equality Talks focuses on the key facets of equality across all communities, including everything from gender, racial, economic and reproductive justice, to labor, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ rights. Programming for the month of June highlights Generation Ratify speaking about the youth movement for the Equal Rights Amendment, advocates supporting LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and members of the Congressional ERA Caucus speaking about Juneteenth.

For more information on Equality Talks go to www.ERACoaltion.org and www.EqualVoice.org.

The ERA Coalition was founded in 2014 to bring concerted, organized action to the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA Coalition has a sister organization, the Fund for Women’s Equality, which promotes public education and outreach on the need for constitutional equality. Composed of more than 290 organizations across the country representing millions of people, the Coalition is a movement of movements focused on overall equality in the United States.

While the effort to amend the constitution to include sex equality began nearly a century ago, our renewed efforts are centered on women of color (African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latina, and Native American), gender-nonconforming and transgender women and girls, and nonbinary people – those who are most impacted by systemic inequities.

www.eracoalition.org | www.fundforwomensequality.org

About Lori:

Lori Sokol, Ph.D., is the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Women's

eNews, an award-winning, non-profit, global news organization that reports on

the most crucial issues impacting women and girls around the world.

Dr. Sokol is also the author of the award-winning book, She Is Me: How Women

Will Save The World, which profiles 30 women including Gloria Steinem, Billie

Jean King, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee, and other extraordinary

women who are contributing to the safety, peace and resiliency of our planet.

Dr. Sokol’s articles have also been published in The Baltimore Sun, Slate.com,

and The Huffington Post, and she has recently been profiled in The Wall Street

Journal, Forbes, MSNBC, CNBC, WPIX and NY1.

https://womensenews.org/

About Women’s eNews

Women’s eNews reports the stories of women and girls to create a more equitable world. Women’s eNews is an award-winning nonprofit (501c3) news service covering issues of particular concern to women and providing women’s perspectives on public policy.

With writers and readers around the globe Women’s eNews’ audience stretches from New York City to New Delhi and all points between, totalling 50,000 annual subscribers and reaching an estimated 3.5 million readers each year.

Women’s eNews editors seek out freelance writers from around the world to write on every topic–politics, religion, economics, health, science, sustainability, education, sports, legislation–and commission them to write 800-word news articles for distribution each day to our subscribers and for posting on our Web site. We rely on the best practices of journalism and have gained enormous credibility by doing excellent journalism each day.