Bearcat

In 1976 Melissa Ludtke was the only woman working as a full-time baseball reporter. She tried to nicely integrate herself into the institution of …

Reverend Roslyn Bouier runs Brightmoor Food Pantry, one of the largest food pantries in Detroit. Her work feeding hundreds of hungry folks in Detroit …

She helped start NOW, then left to start The Feminist Party, which got Shirley Chisholm elected to Congress (the first Black woman elected to …

Arlene Blum led the first all-women ascents of most of the world's tallest mountains. But before she started climbing mountains, she took on another huge challenge: the chemical industry. In the 1970s Blum discovered …

As a longtime fatherhood researcher, Masako Ishii-Kuntz was instrumental in the launch of the ikumen project, a nationwide campaign aimed at …

In this episode, we meet Leticia Aguilar and hear about her epic journey, from growing up as one of 18 kids in a small town in Mexico to her early days in Sacramento to the work she does now, helping Latina immigrants …

In our first episode, traveling bookseller Rita Collins talks to us about why she loves living in the Montana woods and how she came to own and …

Bearcat (noun): 1920s slang term for a hot-blooded or feisty woman. 

Bearcat is a podcast for serious women. Bi-weekly episodes, hosted by reporters Brittany Shoot and Amy Westervelt, celebrate women who are committed …